Hidden inside limits sit limits and mislit, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limits and mislit tie for the highest Scrabble score from limits at 8 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in limits: one comes from rearranging its letters, and limits itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limits. For points, the strongest plays are limits and mislit — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in limits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limit. For points, the strongest plays are limit, milts, and mitis — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in limits produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with list and slim. For points, the strongest plays are mils, milt, mist, slim, smit, and stim — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling limits turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, lit, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are ism, mil, mis, and sim — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in limits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest play is mi — 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 limits 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.
limits 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 nine senses for limits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
limits is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing limits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are limits and mislit, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from limits 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 limits produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.