Hidden inside turbinates sit tribunates and turbinates, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 884 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tribunates and turbinates tie for the highest Scrabble score from turbinates at 12 points. The top 10 of 884 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in turbinates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and turbinates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tribunates and turbinates, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling turbinates turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antibuser, braunites, intubates and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turbinates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tributes and urinates. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including tributes, abutters and banister.
Rearranging the letters in turbinates produces 97 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastier, natures and tastier. For points, 42 words tie at 9 points, including tribute, abutter and arbutes.
Unscrambling turbinates turns up 164 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, barest and bitten. For points, 71 words tie at 8 points, including barest, bitten and bitter.
There are 233 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turbinates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse, aunts and baits. For points, 89 words tie at 7 points, including abuse, baits and barns.
Rearranging the letters in turbinates produces 214 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and anus. For points, 79 words tie at 6 points, including bait, bans and bare.
Unscrambling turbinates turns up 112 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and are. For points, 31 words tie at 5 points, including ban, bar and bat.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turbinates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
turbinates 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 three senses for turbinates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
turbinates is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing turbinates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tribunates and turbinates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from turbinates 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 turbinates produce 884 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 28 eight-letter words, 97 seven-letter words, 164 six-letter words, 233 five-letter words, 214 four-letter words, 112 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.