buffet needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble BFFUTE, TEBUFF or FFEBUT and you get the same 6 letters as BUFFET: so the words from BUFFET listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
buffet is the highest-scoring word from buffet, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in buffet — and it is buffet itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in buffet plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in buffet and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
buffet 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for buffet. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
buffet is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buffet unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is buffet, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from buffet 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 buffet produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.