Hidden inside list sit list, lits, silt and 2 others, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 4 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ISLT, STLI or SITL and you get the same 4 letters as LIST: so the words from LIST listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
list, lits, silt and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from list at 4 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 four-letter words hiding in list: four come from rearranging its letters, and list itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with list. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including list, lits and silt.
34 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in list plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in list and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
list 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 seven senses for list. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 4 points on a Scrabble board:
list is one of five four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing list unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are list, lits, silt, slit, and tils, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from list 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 list produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.