Hidden inside leasts sit leasts, slates, stales and 3 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leasts, slates, stales and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from leasts at 6 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 six-letter words hiding in leasts: five come from rearranging its letters, and leasts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steals. For points, the strongest plays are leasts, slates, stales, steals, tassel, and teslas — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leasts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasts, least, sales, salts, seals, seats, and steal. For points, the strongest plays are asset, easts, lases, lasts, least, sales, salts, sates, seals, seats, setal, slate, slats, stale, steal, stela, taels, tales, tases, tasse, 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 leasts produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with east, eats, last, late, less, lets, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are ales, alts, ates, east, eats, ests, etas, lase, lass, last, late, lats, leas, less, lest, lets, sale, sals, salt, sate, seal, seas, seat, sels, seta, sets, slat, tael, tale, tase, tass, 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 leasts turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, ate, eat, let, sat, sea, and set. For points, the strongest plays are ale, als, alt, ass, ate, ats, eat, els, ess, 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 leasts. 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.
33 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in leasts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in leasts 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.
leasts 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 leasts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
leasts is one of six six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leasts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leasts, slates, stales, steals, tassel, and teslas, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leasts 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 leasts produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.