turnabout needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
turnabout is the highest-scoring word from turnabout, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in turnabout — and it is turnabout itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turnabout. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outburnt and runabout, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in turnabout produces 4 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 burnout and outburn, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling turnabout turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with button. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including button, auburn and burton.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turnabout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, about, burnt, and urban. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including abort, about and burnt.
Rearranging the letters in turnabout produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto and barn. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including barn, boat and born.
Unscrambling turnabout turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art and ban. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including ban, bar and bat.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turnabout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and no. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in turnabout plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in turnabout and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
turnabout 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 4-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 turnabout. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
turnabout is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing turnabout unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is turnabout, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from turnabout 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 turnabout produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.