Hidden inside elision sit elision, isoline, and lionise, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elision, isoline, and lionise tie for the highest Scrabble score from elision at 7 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in elision: two come from rearranging its letters, and elision itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elision, isoline, and lionise, 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 elision turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eloins, insole, ionise, lesion, oleins, and sileni, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elision. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, lions, and noise. For points, the strongest plays are eloin, enols, eosin, lenis, lenos, liens, lines, linos, lions, loins, nisei, noels, noils, noise, olein, and solei — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in elision produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, line, lion, lose, nose, oils, and ones. For points, the strongest plays are enol, eons, ions, isle, leis, leno, lens, lien, lies, line, lino, lins, lion, loin, lone, lose, nils, nisi, noel, noes, noil, nose, oils, oles, ones, silo, sine, sloe, soil, sole, soli, and sone — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling elision turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, oil, one, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are els, ens, eon, ins, ion, lei, lie, lin, lis, nil, nos, oes, oil, ole, one, ons, ose, sei, sel, sen, sin, sol, and son — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elision. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are el, en, es, in, is, li, lo, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, si, and so — 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 elision 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.
elision 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 two senses for elision. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
elision is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing elision unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elision, isoline, and lionise, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elision 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 elision produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.