walkabout needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
walkabout is the highest-scoring word from walkabout, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in walkabout — and it is walkabout itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in walkabout produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outwalk and walkout, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in walkabout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with about. For points, the strongest play is baulk — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in walkabout produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auto, blow and boat. For points, the strongest play is bawk — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling walkabout turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bat, bow and but. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in walkabout. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, aw and ok. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in walkabout plus one additional letter.
walkabout 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 3-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 walkabout. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
walkabout is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing walkabout unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is walkabout, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from walkabout 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 walkabout produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.