Hidden inside turns sit runts and turns, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
runts and turns tie for the highest Scrabble score from turns at 5 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in turns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and turns itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with turns. For points, the strongest plays are runts and turns — 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 turns produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuts, runs, and turn. For points, the strongest plays are nuts, runs, runt, rust, ruts, stun, tuns, turn, and urns — 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 turns turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nut, run, and sun. For points, the strongest plays are nus, nut, run, rut, sun, tun, uns, urn, 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are nu, 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.
Swap a single tile in turns and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
turns 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.
Dictionaries record thirty-eight senses for turns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
turns is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing turns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are runts and turns, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from turns 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 turns produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.