distills needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
distills is the highest-scoring word from distills, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in distills — and it is distills itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in distills produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are distill and distils, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling distills turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is distil, worth 7 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 distills. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lists and still. For points, the strongest plays are dills and silds — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in distills produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lids, list, sits, slid, and till. For points, the strongest plays are dill, diss, dits, lids, sild, and slid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling distills turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ids, ill, its, lid, lit, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are dis, dit, ids, and lid — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distills. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is id — worth 3 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 distills 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.
distills 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 five senses for distills. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
distills is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distills unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is distills, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from distills 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 distills produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.