Hidden inside gutless sit gutless and tugless, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gutless and tugless tie for the highest Scrabble score from gutless at 8 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in gutless: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gutless itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gutless and tugless, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gutless turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guests. For points, the strongest plays are glutes, guests, and gusset — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gutless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glues, guess, and guest. For points, the strongest plays are gelts, gests, glues, glute, gluts, guess, guest, gules, gusts, luges, slugs, and tegus — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gutless produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, glue, guts, legs, less, lets, and sets. For points, the strongest plays are gels, gelt, gest, gets, glue, glut, guls, gust, guts, legs, luge, lugs, segs, slug, tegs, tegu, and tugs — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gutless turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, gut, leg, let, set, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are gel, get, gul, gut, leg, lug, seg, teg, and tug — each worth 4 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 gutless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, et, te, 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 gutless and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
gutless 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 two senses for gutless. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
gutless is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gutless unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gutless and tugless, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gutless 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 gutless produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.