Hidden inside listees sit listees, telesis, and tieless, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
listees, telesis, and tieless tie for the highest Scrabble score from listees at 7 points. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in listees: two come from rearranging its letters, and listees itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are listees, telesis, and tieless, 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 listees turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steels. For points, the strongest plays are elites, islets, istles, listee, sleets, sliest, steels, steles, and stiles — 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in listees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lists, sites, and steel. For points, the strongest plays are elite, isles, islet, istle, leets, lists, lites, seels, seise, silts, sites, sleet, slits, steel, stele, sties, stile, teels, teles, and tiles — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in listees produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, less, lets, lies, list, sees, and sets. For points, the strongest plays are eels, else, eses, esse, ests, isle, lees, leet, leis, less, lest, lets, lies, list, lite, lits, seel, sees, seis, sels, sets, silt, site, sits, slit, teel, tees, tele, tels, ties, tile, and tils — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling listees turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lit, see, set, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are eel, els, ess, est, its, lee, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, see, sei, sel, set, sis, sit, tee, tel, tes, tie, til, and tis — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in listees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, et, is, it, li, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 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 listees and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
listees 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.
listees is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing listees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are listees, telesis, and tieless, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from listees 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 listees produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.