Hidden inside elisions sit elisions, isolines, lionises and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elisions, isolines, lionises and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from elisions at 8 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in elisions: three come from rearranging its letters, and elisions 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 elisions, isolines, lionises, and oiliness, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in elisions produces 7 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 elision, insoles, ionises, isoline, lesions, lioness, 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 elisions turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lesson and noises. For points, the strongest plays are eloins, enosis, eosins, essoin, insole, ionise, lesion, lesson, niseis, noesis, noises, oleins, ossein, seisin, sileni, siloes, and sonsie — 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elisions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, lions, loses, noise, and noses. For points, the strongest plays are eloin, enols, eosin, isles, issei, lenis, lenos, liens, lines, linos, lions, loess, loins, loses, nisei, noels, noils, noise, noses, olein, silos, sines, sloes, soils, solei, soles, and sones — 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 elisions produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies, line, lion, lose, loss, and nose. For points, the strongest plays are enol, eons, ions, isle, leis, leno, lens, less, lien, lies, line, lino, lins, lion, loin, lone, lose, loss, ness, nils, nisi, noel, noes, noil, nose, oils, oles, ones, oses, seis, sels, silo, sine, sins, sloe, soil, sole, soli, sols, sone, and sons — 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 elisions turns up 26 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, ess, ins, ion, lei, lie, lin, lis, nil, nos, oes, oil, ole, one, ons, ose, sei, sel, sen, sin, sis, sol, son, and sos — 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 elisions. 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 elisions 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.
elisions 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 elisions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
elisions is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing elisions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elisions, isolines, lionises, and oiliness, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elisions 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 elisions produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.