yoghourt needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yoghourt is the highest-scoring word from yoghourt, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in yoghourt — and it is yoghourt itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in yoghourt produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: yoghurt, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yoghourt. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ought, rough, tough, and youth. For points, the strongest plays are hooty and youth — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in yoghourt produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hour, hurt and orgy. For points, the strongest play is yogh — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling yoghourt turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goo, got and gut. For points, the strongest plays are hoy and thy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in yoghourt plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yoghourt 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.
yoghourt 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in yoghourt carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for yoghourt. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
yoghourt is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yoghourt unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yoghourt, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yoghourt 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 yoghourt produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.