Hidden inside least sit least, setal, slate and 7 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
least, setal, slate and 0 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from least at 5 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 10 five-letter words hiding in least: nine come from rearranging its letters, and least itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with least, steal, and tales. For points, the strongest plays are least, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, and tesla — 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 least produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, last, late, lets, sale, and salt. For points, the strongest plays are ales, alts, ates, east, eats, etas, lase, last, late, lats, leas, lest, lets, sale, salt, sate, seal, seat, seta, slat, tael, tale, tase, teal, teas, tela, and tels — 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 least turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, let, sat, sea, set, and tea. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, ate, ats, eat, els, est, eta, las, lat, lea, let, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, set, tae, tas, tea, tel, and tes — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in least. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, as, at, el, es, et, la, ta, 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.
69 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in least plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in least and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
least 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 least. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
least is one of ten five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing least unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are least, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, teals, and tesla, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from least 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 least produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 10 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.