Hidden inside turbans sit nutbars and turbans, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nutbars and turbans tie for the highest Scrabble score from turbans at 9 points. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in turbans: one comes from rearranging its letters, and turbans itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nutbars and turbans, 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 turbans turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are brants, brunts, burans, nutbar, tabuns, turban, and unbars, 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turbans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, barns, brats, burns, burnt, burst, and tunas. For points, the strongest plays are abuts, barns, brans, brant, brats, brunt, bruts, bunas, bunts, buran, buras, burns, burnt, bursa, burst, tabun, tabus, tsuba, tubas, unbar, and urban — 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 turbans produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, arts, aunt, bans, barn, and bars. For points, the strongest plays are abut, arbs, bans, barn, bars, bast, bats, bran, bras, brat, brut, buna, buns, bunt, bura, burn, burs, bust, buts, nabs, nubs, rubs, snub, stab, stub, suba, tabs, tabu, tuba, tubs, 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 turbans turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art, ban, bar, bat, bra, and bun. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, ban, bar, bas, bat, bra, bun, bur, bus, but, nab, nub, rub, sab, sub, tab, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turbans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab and ba — 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 turbans 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.
turbans 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 turbans. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
turbans is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing turbans unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nutbars and turbans, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from turbans 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 turbans produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.