Hidden inside buffets sit buffest and buffets, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buffest and buffets tie for the highest Scrabble score from buffets at 15 points. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in buffets: one comes from rearranging its letters, and buffets itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buffets. For points, the strongest plays are buffest and buffets — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling buffets produces exactly one six-letter word: buffet. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in buffets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fetus, stuff, and tubes. For points, the strongest play is buffs — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in buffets produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with best, bets and bust. For points, the strongest play is buff — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling buffets turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bus and but. For points, the strongest play is eff — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in buffets plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in buffets and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
buffets 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.
buffets is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing buffets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buffest and buffets, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from buffets 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 buffets produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.