Hidden inside tribunes sit tribunes and turbines, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 320 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tribunes and turbines tie for the highest Scrabble score from tribunes at 10 points. The top 10 of 320 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tribunes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tribunes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tribunes and turbines, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tribunes produces 14 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are brunets, bunters, burnets, burnies, bustier, inburst, rubiest, suberin, subrent, tribune, and turbine, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tribunes turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buries, busier, and tribes. For points, the strongest plays are bestir, biners, bister, bistre, biters, brents, brines, bruins, bruise, bruits, brunet, brunts, brutes, bunter, burets, buries, burins, burnet, burnie, busier, buster, rebuts, rubies, subnet, tribes, and tubers — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribunes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bites, burns, burnt, burst, nurse, rents, and risen. For points, the strongest plays are bents, biers, biner, bines, bints, birse, biter, bites, brens, brent, bries, brine, brins, brits, bruin, bruit, brunt, brute, bruts, bunts, buret, burin, burns, burnt, burse, burst, butes, rebus, rebut, ribes, rubes, suber, tribe, tuber, and tubes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tribunes produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bent, best, bets, bite, bits, buns, and burn. For points, the strongest plays are bens, bent, best, bets, bier, bine, bins, bint, bise, bite, bits, bren, brie, brin, bris, brit, brut, buns, bunt, burn, burs, bust, bute, buts, nebs, nibs, nubs, rebs, ribs, rube, rubs, snib, snub, stub, tube, tubs, unbe, and urbs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tribunes turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bit, bun, bus, but, its, and net. For points, the strongest plays are ben, bes, bet, bin, bis, bit, bun, bur, bus, but, neb, nib, nub, reb, rib, rub, sib, sub, tub, and urb — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tribunes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in tribunes and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
tribunes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for tribunes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
tribunes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tribunes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tribunes and turbines, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tribunes earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in tribunes produce 320 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.