Hidden inside allots sit allots and atolls, 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.
allots and atolls tie for the highest Scrabble score from allots at 6 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in allots: one comes from rearranging its letters, and allots 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 allots and atolls, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allots. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stall and tolls. For points, the strongest plays are allot, altos, atoll, lotas, lotsa, ollas, salol, stall, talls, tolas, and tolls — 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 allots produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, last, lost, lots, salt, slot, and tall. For points, the strongest plays are alls, also, alto, alts, last, lats, lost, lota, lots, oast, oats, olla, sall, salt, slat, slot, sola, stoa, tall, taos, tola, toll, and tosa — 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 allots turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, lot, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are all, als, alt, ats, las, lat, lot, oat, sal, sat, sol, sot, tao, and tas — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allots. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are al, as, at, la, lo, os, so, ta, and to — 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 allots 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.
allots 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 three senses for allots. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
allots is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allots unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allots and atolls, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from allots 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 allots produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.