Hidden inside tutelars sit lustrate and tutelars, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 272 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lustrate and tutelars tie for the highest Scrabble score from tutelars at 8 points. The top 10 of 272 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tutelars: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tutelars itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lustrate and tutelars, 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 tutelars produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with startle and turtles. For points, the strongest plays are estrual, latters, rattles, saluter, starlet, startle, stature, turtles, and tutelar — 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 tutelars turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, latest, lattes, result, statue, and treats. For points, the strongest plays are alerts, alters, artels, astute, estral, laster, latest, latter, lattes, luster, lustra, lustre, ratels, rattle, result, rustle, salter, salute, saurel, slater, staler, stater, statue, stelar, sutler, talers, taster, taters, tauter, tetras, treats, truest, turtle, ulster, ultras, urates, and utters — 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 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tutelars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, laser, later, latte, least, and lures. For points, the strongest plays are alert, alter, arles, artel, aster, aures, earls, lares, laser, later, latte, lears, least, lures, lutea, lutes, rales, ratel, rates, reals, resat, rules, salut, sault, saute, seral, setal, slate, stale, stare, start, state, steal, stela, strut, sturt, sural, sutra, sutta, taels, taler, tales, talus, tares, tarts, taser, taste, tater, tates, tauts, teals, tears, teats, tesla, testa, tetra, treat, trets, trues, trust, tules, ultra, urase, urate, ureal, ureas, ursae, and utter — 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 tutelars produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, last, and late. For points, the strongest plays are ales, alts, ares, arse, arts, ates, earl, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, lars, lase, last, late, lats, latu, lear, leas, lest, lets, lues, lure, lust, lute, rale, rase, rate, rats, real, rest, rets, rues, rule, ruse, rust, ruts, sale, salt, sate, saul, seal, sear, seat, sera, seta, sett, slat, slue, slur, slut, star, stat, stet, suer, suet, sura, sure, tael, tale, tare, tars, tart, tase, tate, tats, taus, taut, teal, tear, teas, teat, tela, tels, test, tets, tres, tret, true, tsar, tule, tuts, urea, ursa, user, utas, 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 tutelars turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and let. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, are, ars, art, ate, ats, att, ear, eat, eau, els, era, ers, est, eta, lar, las, lat, lea, let, leu, ras, rat, res, ret, rue, rut, sae, sal, sat, sau, sea, sel, ser, set, sue, tae, tar, tas, tat, tau, tea, tel, tes, tet, tut, use, uta, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tutelars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, la, re, ta, te, 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 tutelars and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
tutelars 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 one sense for tutelars. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tutelars is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tutelars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lustrate and tutelars, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tutelars 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 tutelars produce 272 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.