Hidden inside tauten sit attune, nutate, and tauten, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attune, nutate, and tauten tie for the highest Scrabble score from tauten at 6 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in tauten: two come from rearranging its letters, and tauten itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attune, nutate, and tauten, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tauten produces exactly one five-letter word: taunt. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tauten produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, neat and tent. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including aunt, neat and tent.
Unscrambling tauten turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and eat. For points, 21 words tie at 3 points, including ant, ate and eat.
Swap a single tile in tauten 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.
tauten 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for tauten. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
tauten is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tauten unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are attune, nutate, and tauten, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tauten 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 tauten produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 11 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.