turnabouts needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 409 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
turnabouts is the highest-scoring word from turnabouts, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 409 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in turnabouts — and it is turnabouts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling turnabouts turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are runabouts and turnabout, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turnabouts. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are burnouts, outburns, outburnt and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in turnabouts produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buttons. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including buttons, abortus and arbutus.
Unscrambling turnabouts turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts and button. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including aborts, button and auburn.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turnabouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, about and aunts. For points, 47 words tie at 7 points, including abort, about and barns.
Rearranging the letters in turnabouts produces 129 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus and arts. For points, 52 words tie at 6 points, including bans, barn and bars.
Unscrambling turnabouts turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, art and ban. For points, 28 words tie at 5 points, including ban, bar and bat.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turnabouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
turnabouts 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 turnabouts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
turnabouts is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing turnabouts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is turnabouts, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from turnabouts 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 turnabouts produce 409 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 129 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.