Hidden inside lipsticks sit lickspits and lipsticks, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lickspits and lipsticks tie for the highest Scrabble score from lipsticks at 17 points. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in lipsticks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lipsticks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lipsticks. For points, the strongest plays are lickspits and lipsticks — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lipsticks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lipstick. For points, the strongest plays are lickspit and lipstick — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lipsticks produces exactly one seven-letter word: pistils. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lipsticks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clips, licks and lists. For points, the strongest play is picks — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lipsticks produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clip, kiss and kits. For points, the strongest play is pick — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lipsticks turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, kit and lip. For points, the strongest plays are ick and kip — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in lipsticks and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
lipsticks 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 3-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 lipsticks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
lipsticks is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lipsticks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lickspits and lipsticks, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lipsticks 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 lipsticks produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.