walnut 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, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble UNWALT, TUAWLN or TWUNAL and you get the same 6 letters as WALNUT: so the words from WALNUT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
walnut is the highest-scoring word from walnut, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in walnut — and it is walnut itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in walnut produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, lawn, tuna, and want. For points, the strongest plays are lawn, want, and waul — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling walnut turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, law, nut, and tan. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including law, awl and awn.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in walnut plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in walnut 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.
walnut 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 walnut. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
walnut is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing walnut unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is walnut, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from walnut 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 walnut produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 10 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.