Hidden inside lessty sit slyest and styles, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TLYSES, TYSSEL or LYSTES and you get the same 6 letters as LESSTY: so the words from LESSTY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
LESSTY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to SLYEST and STYLES.
slyest and styles tie for the highest Scrabble score from lessty at 9 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling lessty turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with styles. For points, the strongest plays are slyest and styles — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lessty produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, and sets. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including leys, lyes and lyse.
Unscrambling lessty turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, set, yes, and yet. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including yes, yet and ley.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lessty plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lessty 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are slyest and styles, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lessty 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 lessty produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.