Hidden inside lessor sit lessor, losers, and sorels, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lessor, losers, and sorels tie for the highest Scrabble score from lessor at 6 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in lessor: two come from rearranging its letters, and lessor itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losers. For points, the strongest plays are lessor, losers, and sorels — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lessor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, loses, roles, and roses. For points, the strongest plays are loess, lores, loser, loses, orles, roles, roses, sloes, soles, sorel, and sores — 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 lessor produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lose, loss, role, rose, and sore. For points, the strongest plays are eros, less, lore, lose, loss, oles, ores, orle, oses, roes, role, rose, sels, sers, sloe, sole, sols, and sore — 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 lessor turns up 15 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are els, ers, ess, lor, oes, ole, ore, ors, ose, res, roe, sel, ser, sol, and sos, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lessor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or and so. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, lo, oe, or, os, re, 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.
25 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lessor plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lessor 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.
lessor 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 lessor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
lessor is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lessor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lessor, losers, and sorels, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lessor 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 lessor produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.