Hidden inside tutors sit trouts and tutors, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
trouts and tutors tie for the highest Scrabble score from tutors at 6 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in tutors: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tutors itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are trouts and tutors, 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tutors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tours and trust. For points, the strongest plays are roust, routs, stour, stout, strut, sturt, torts, torus, tours, touts, trots, trout, trust, 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 tutors produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, sort, sour, and tour. For points, the strongest plays are orts, ours, oust, outs, rots, rout, rust, ruts, sort, sour, stot, tors, tort, tost, tots, tour, tout, trot, trou, and tuts — 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 tutors turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with our and out. For points, the strongest plays are ors, ort, our, out, rot, rut, sot, sou, tor, tot, tut, 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tutors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are or, os, so, to, 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 tutors 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.
tutors 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 three senses for tutors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
tutors is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tutors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are trouts and tutors, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tutors 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 tutors produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.