unshut 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, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unshut is the highest-scoring word from unshut, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in unshut — and it is unshut itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unshut produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hunt, nuts, shut, and thus. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including hunt, shut and thus.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in unshut plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in unshut 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.
unshut 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.
unshut is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unshut unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unshut, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unshut 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 unshut produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.