Hidden inside results sit lusters, lustres, results and 3 others, 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.
Unscramble SURETLS, RESTSUL or SERTULS and you get the same 7 letters as RESULTS: so the words from RESULTS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
lusters, lustres, results and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from results at 7 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 seven-letter words hiding in results: five come from rearranging its letters, and results itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with results. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including results, lusters and lustres.
Unscrambling results turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with result and surest. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including result, surest and estrus.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in results. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lures, rests, and rules. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including lures, rests and rules.
Rearranging the letters in results produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets and lure. For points, 33 words tie at 4 points, including less, lets and lure.
Unscrambling results turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, set, sue, and use. For points, 20 words tie at 3 points, including let, set and sue.
16 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in results plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in results 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.
results 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 seven senses for results. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
results is one of six seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing results unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lusters, lustres, results, rustles, sutlers, and ulsters, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from results 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 results produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.