Hidden inside colonist sit colonist and stolonic, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 179 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
colonist and stolonic tie for the highest Scrabble score from colonist at 10 points. The top 10 of 179 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in colonist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and colonist itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are colonist and stolonic, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in colonist produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lotions. For points, the strongest plays are lotions and soliton — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling colonist turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colons and lotion. For points, the strongest plays are cloots, colins, coloni, colons, consol, contos, nicols, nostoc, tocsin, and tonics — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in colonist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, colon, cools, lions, stool, and tools. For points, the strongest plays are cions, clits, clons, cloot, clots, coils, coins, colin, colon, colts, conto, cools, coons, coots, icons, locis, locos, lotic, nicol, ontic, scion, scoot, sonic, stoic, tocos, and tonic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in colonist produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons, cool, cost, into, lion, and list. For points, the strongest plays are cion, cist, clit, clon, clot, coil, coin, cols, colt, coni, cons, cool, coon, coos, coot, cost, cots, icon, loci, loco, locs, otic, scot, tics, and toco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling colonist turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, its, lit, lot, not, oil, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are cis, col, con, coo, cos, cot, loc, sic, soc, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in colonist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are in, is, it, li, lo, no, oi, on, os, si, so, ti, 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 colonist and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
colonist 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 3-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 colonist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
colonist is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing colonist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are colonist and stolonic, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from colonist 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 colonist produce 179 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.