Unscramble BUTTYMAN to get 105 words. BUTTYMAN itself is a real word: 15 points on a Scrabble board, 18 in Words With Friends. YNAMBU is the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
B34U12T1T1Y43M34A1N12
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from BUTTYMAN split into 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 6, 15 with 5, 26 with 4, 40 with 3 and 19 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Of the 40 3-letter words you get when you unscramble BUTTYMAN, 7 score 8 points, the group's best. BUT, MAY and ANY are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of BUTTYMAN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with BU · ending in AN · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by BANTY, BATTY, BUNYA, BUTTY, NUMBAT and YAMUN (10 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
BUTTYMAN is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUTTYMAN itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 105) | 83 | 105 | 81 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BUTTYMAN, YNAMBU, MAUBY, BUNTY, MANTY, BAYT, MATY, NYM, TANTY, TUTMAN, TUNY, AYU and 10 more, 22 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: BUNA and TUM, 2 in all.