Hidden inside turnout sit outturn and turnout, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
outturn and turnout tie for the highest Scrabble score from turnout at 7 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in turnout: one comes from rearranging its letters, and turnout 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 outturn and turnout, 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 turnout turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outrun and runout, 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 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turnout. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are trout and tutor, 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 turnout produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with torn, tour, and turn. For points, the strongest plays are rout, runt, torn, tort, tour, tout, trot, trou, turn, tutu, and unto — 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 turnout turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, not, nut, our, out, run, and ton. For points, the strongest plays are nor, not, nut, ort, our, out, rot, run, rut, ton, tor, tot, tun, tut, and urn — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turnout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are no, nu, on, or, to, un, 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.
Swap a single tile in turnout 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.
turnout 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 seven senses for turnout. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
turnout is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing turnout unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are outturn and turnout, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from turnout 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 turnout produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.