tusks needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 10 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tusks is the highest-scoring word from tusks, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 10 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in tusks — and it is tusks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tusks produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are suks, tsks, and tusk, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tusks turns up 4 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are suk and tsk, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tusks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are 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 tusks 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.
tusks 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for tusks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tusks is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tusks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tusks, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tusks 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 tusks produce 10 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.