Hidden inside aisles sit aisles, lassie, and liases, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aisles, lassie, and liases tie for the highest Scrabble score from aisles at 6 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in aisles: two come from rearranging its letters, and aisles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles. For points, the strongest plays are aisles, lassie, and liases — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aisles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, sails, sales, and seals. For points, the strongest plays are aisle, isles, lases, lassi, sails, sales, seals, sials, and sisal — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in aisles produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies, sail, sale, seal, and seas. For points, the strongest plays are ails, ales, ilea, isle, lase, lass, leas, leis, less, lias, lies, sail, sale, sals, seal, seas, seis, sels, and sial — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling aisles turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, lie, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ail, ais, ale, als, ass, els, ess, las, lea, lei, lie, lis, sae, sal, sea, sei, sel, and sis — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aisles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, as, el, es, is, la, li, and si — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
31 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in aisles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aisles 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.
aisles 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 1-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 aisles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
aisles is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aisles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aisles, lassie, and liases, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aisles 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 aisles produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.