distill needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
distill is the highest-scoring word from distill, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in distill — and it is distill itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling distill produces exactly one six-letter word: distil. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in distill produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lids, list, slid, and till. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including lids, slid and dill.
Unscrambling distill turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ids, ill and its. For points, the strongest plays are dis, dit, ids, and lid — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in distill plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in distill and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
distill 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 distill. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
distill is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distill unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is distill, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from distill 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 distill produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.