Hidden inside listless sit listless and slitless, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
listless and slitless tie for the highest Scrabble score from listless at 8 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in listless: one comes from rearranging its letters, and listless 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 listless and slitless, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling listless produces exactly one seven-letter word: listels. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling listless turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are illest, islets, istles, lisles, listel, sliest, stiles, and stills, 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in listless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lists, sells, sites, still, and tells. For points, the strongest plays are isles, islet, istle, lilts, lisle, lists, lites, sells, sills, silts, sises, sites, slits, sties, stile, still, tells, tiles, and tills — 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 listless produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, lies, list, sell, sets, and site. For points, the strongest plays are ells, ests, ills, isle, leis, less, lest, lets, lies, lilt, list, lite, lits, seis, sell, sels, sets, sill, silt, site, sits, slit, tell, tels, ties, tile, till, 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 listless turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, its, let, lie, lit, set, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are ell, els, ess, est, ill, its, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, sei, sel, set, sis, sit, 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 listless. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in listless plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in listless 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.
listless 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 two senses for listless. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
listless is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing listless unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are listless and slitless, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from listless 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 listless produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.