Hidden inside turneries sit reuniters, turneries, and unretires, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 326 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reuniters, turneries, and unretires tie for the highest Scrabble score from turneries at 9 points. The top 10 of 326 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in turneries: two come from rearranging its letters, and turneries itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reuniters, turneries, and unretires, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turneries. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are esurient, inserter, reinsert, reinsure, reinters, rentiers, retinues, reuniter, reunites, terrines, and unretire, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in turneries produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, retires, returns, and rustier. For points, the strongest plays are ensuite, ensurer, entires, entries, etriers, insurer, neuters, nutsier, reinter, renters, rentier, rerents, rerisen, retines, retinue, retires, retries, retunes, returns, reunite, ruiners, runtier, rustier, sterner, tenures, terries, terrine, trienes, triunes, tureens, turners, uniters, ureters, and uterine — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling turneries turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, resent, retire, return, and tenser. For points, the strongest plays are ensure, enters, entire, enures, estrin, etrier, inerts, insert, insure, inters, inures, nereis, nester, neuter, niters, nitres, nurser, renest, renter, rentes, rerent, rerise, reruns, resent, resite, rester, reties, retine, retire, retune, return, retuse, rinser, ruiner, rusine, rutins, seiner, serein, serine, sinter, sirree, strine, suiter, tenesi, tenser, tenues, tenuis, tenure, ternes, terser, treens, triene, triens, triers, trines, triune, tuners, tureen, turner, uniter, unites, unrest, unties, ureter, urines, and ursine — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turneries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, nurse, rents, risen, ruins, siren, and steer. For points, the strongest plays are ensue, enter, enure, ernes, ester, etuis, inert, inset, inter, inure, neist, nerts, niter, nites, nitre, nurse, reest, reins, rente, rents, rerun, reset, resin, resit, retie, reuse, rinse, risen, riser, rites, ruers, ruins, runes, runts, rutin, seine, sente, senti, serer, serin, sieur, siree, siren, sneer, steer, stein, stere, stern, suete, suint, suite, surer, teens, teins, tense, teres, terne, terns, terse, tiers, tines, tires, treen, trees, trier, tries, trine, truer, trues, tuner, tunes, turns, turrs, unite, units, unsee, unset, untie, urine, and uteri — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in turneries produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, nuts, rent, rest, rise, and ruin. For points, the strongest plays are erne, erns, errs, erst, esne, etui, ires, nest, nets, nite, nits, nuts, rees, rein, reis, rent, rest, rete, rets, rins, rise, rite, ruer, rues, ruin, rune, runs, runt, ruse, rust, ruts, seen, seer, sene, sent, sere, sine, sire, site, snit, stir, stun, suer, suet, suit, sure, teen, tees, tein, tens, tern, tier, ties, tine, tins, tire, tree, tres, true, tuis, tune, tuns, turn, turr, unis, unit, urns, user, and utes — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling turneries turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, nut, run, see, set, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are ens, ere, ern, err, ers, est, ins, ire, its, nee, net, nit, nus, nut, ree, rei, res, ret, rin, rue, run, rut, see, sei, sen, ser, set, sin, sir, sit, sri, sue, sun, tee, ten, tes, tie, tin, tis, tui, tun, uni, uns, urn, use, ute, and uts — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turneries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, nu, re, si, te, ti, un, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in turneries plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in turneries 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.
turneries 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.
turneries is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing turneries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reuniters, turneries, and unretires, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from turneries 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 turneries produce 326 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.