Hidden inside elites sit elites and listee, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elites and listee tie for the highest Scrabble score from elites at 6 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in elites: one comes from rearranging its letters, and elites 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 elites and listee, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steel. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including steel, elite and islet.
Rearranging the letters in elites produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lets and lies. For points, 23 words tie at 4 points, including else, lets and lies.
Unscrambling elites turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let and lie. For points, 21 words tie at 3 points, including its, let and lie.
31 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in elites plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in elites 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.
elites 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for elites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
elites is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing elites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elites and listee, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elites 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 elites produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.