Hidden inside limiteds sit delimits and limiteds, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 202 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delimits and limiteds tie for the highest Scrabble score from limiteds at 11 points. The top 10 of 202 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in limiteds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and limiteds itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are delimits and limiteds, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in limiteds produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limited and mildest. For points, the strongest plays are delimit, limited, midlist, mildest, misedit, and stimied — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling limiteds turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limits, listed, and smiled. For points, the strongest plays are demist, demits, imides, milted, misled, misted, slimed, and smiled — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in limiteds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets, dimes, edits, items, limit, and melts. For points, the strongest plays are deism, demit, dimes, disme, imide, imids, limed, medii, melds, midis, midst, milds, timed, and timid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in limiteds produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, diet, dime, edit, item, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are dime, dims, idem, imid, meds, meld, midi, mids, and mild — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling limiteds turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, its, led, let, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in limiteds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in limiteds and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
limiteds 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for limiteds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
limiteds is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing limiteds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delimits and limiteds, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from limiteds 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 limiteds produce 202 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.