Hidden inside settlers sit settlers, sterlets, and trestles, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
settlers, sterlets, and trestles tie for the highest Scrabble score from settlers at 8 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in settlers: two come from rearranging its letters, and settlers 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 settlers, sterlets, and trestles, 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 settlers produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letters, settles, and streets. For points, the strongest plays are letters, retests, setters, settler, settles, sterlet, streels, streets, tersest, testers, tressel, and trestle — 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 settlers turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letter, settle, steels, steers, and street. For points, the strongest plays are esters, lesser, letter, reests, relets, resets, retest, serest, sestet, setter, settle, sleets, steels, steers, steles, steres, streel, street, tester, testes, and tsetse — 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in settlers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rests, steel, steer, tests, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are erses, ester, leers, leets, reels, reest, relet, reses, reset, rests, seels, seers, seres, setts, sleet, steel, steer, stele, stere, stets, teels, teles, teres, terse, tests, trees, tress, and trets — 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 settlers produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, less, lets, rest, sees, sets, and test. For points, the strongest plays are eels, else, erst, eses, esse, ests, leer, lees, leet, less, lest, lets, reel, rees, rest, rete, rets, seel, seer, sees, sels, sere, sers, sets, sett, stet, teel, tees, tele, tels, test, tets, tree, tres, and tret — 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 settlers turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are eel, els, ere, ers, ess, est, lee, let, ree, res, ret, see, sel, ser, set, tee, tel, tes, and tet — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in settlers. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are el, er, es, et, re, and te, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in settlers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in settlers 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.
settlers 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 three senses for settlers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
settlers is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing settlers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are settlers, sterlets, and trestles, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from settlers 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 settlers produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.