Hidden inside isosceles sit isosceles and solecises, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
isosceles and solecises tie for the highest Scrabble score from isosceles at 11 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in isosceles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and isosceles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are isosceles and solecises, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in isosceles. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ossicles and solecise, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in isosceles produces 6 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 ecloses, iceless, loessic, and ossicle, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling isosceles turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closes, losses, and slices. For points, the strongest plays are cesses, closes, colies, cosies, ecesis, eclose, locies, slices, and socles — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in isosceles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, loses, and slice. For points, the strongest plays are ceils, close, coils, coles, coses, cosie, locie, locis, oleic, sices, slice, soces, and socle — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in isosceles produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, ices, less, lice, lies, lose, and loss. For points, the strongest plays are cees, ceil, cels, cess, coil, cole, cols, coss, ecos, ices, lice, loci, locs, secs, sice, and sics — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling isosceles turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, lie, oil, and see. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cel, cis, col, cos, eco, ice, loc, sec, sic, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in isosceles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and so. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, is, li, lo, oe, oi, 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 isosceles and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
isosceles 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 one sense for isosceles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
isosceles is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing isosceles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are isosceles and solecises, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from isosceles 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 isosceles produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.