Hidden inside elitists sit elitists and siltiest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elitists and siltiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from elitists at 8 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in elitists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and elitists 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 elitists and siltiest, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling elitists produces exactly one seven-letter word: elitist. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling elitists turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with titles. For points, the strongest plays are islets, istles, litest, sliest, stiles, stilts, testis, and titles — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elitists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lists, sites, tests, and title. For points, the strongest plays are isles, islet, issei, istle, lists, lites, setts, silts, sites, slits, stets, sties, stile, stilt, tests, tiles, tilts, titis, and title — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in elitists produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, lies, list, sets, site, and sits. For points, the strongest plays are ests, isle, leis, less, lest, lets, lies, list, lite, lits, seis, sels, sets, sett, silt, site, sits, slit, stet, tels, test, tets, ties, tile, tils, tilt, titi, and tits — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling elitists turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lit, set, sit, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are els, ess, est, its, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, sei, sel, set, sis, sit, tel, tes, tet, tie, til, tis, and tit — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in elitists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, et, is, it, li, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in elitists plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in elitists 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.
elitists 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 one sense for elitists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
elitists is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing elitists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elitists and siltiest, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from elitists 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 elitists produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.