Hidden inside lassie sit aisles, lassie, and liases, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aisles, lassie, and liases tie for the highest Scrabble score from lassie at 6 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in lassie: two come from rearranging its letters, and lassie itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles. For points, the strongest plays are aisles, lassie, and liases — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lassie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, sails, sales, and seals. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including aisle, sails and sales.
Rearranging the letters in lassie produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies and sail. For points, 19 words tie at 4 points, including less, lies and sail.
Unscrambling lassie turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, lie, and sea. For points, 18 words tie at 3 points, including ass, lie and sea.
31 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lassie plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lassie and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
lassie 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 lassie. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
lassie is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lassie unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aisles, lassie, and liases, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lassie 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 lassie produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.