tussah needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tussah is the highest-scoring word from tussah, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in tussah — and it is tussah itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tussah produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hats, shut, and thus. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including hats, shut and thus.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tussah. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tussah plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tussah and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tussah 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in tussah carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for tussah. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tussah is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tussah unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tussah, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tussah 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 tussah produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.