checklists needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 285 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
checklists is the highest-scoring word from checklists, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 285 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in checklists — and it is checklists itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checklists produces exactly one nine-letter word: checklist. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checklists. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is schticks, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in checklists produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sickest and tickles. For points, the strongest play is schtick — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checklists turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with checks, chests and chicks. For points, the strongest plays are checks and chicks — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checklists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with check, chess and chest. For points, the strongest plays are check and chick — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in checklists produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heck, hike and hits. For points, the strongest plays are heck and hick — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checklists turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit and ice. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checklists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in checklists plus one additional letter.
checklists 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 one sense for checklists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
checklists is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing checklists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is checklists, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from checklists 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 checklists produce 285 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.