Hidden inside lists sit lists, silts, and slits, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lists, silts, and slits tie for the highest Scrabble score from lists at 5 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in lists: two come from rearranging its letters, and lists itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lists. For points, the strongest plays are lists, silts, and slits — 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 lists produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with list and sits. For points, the strongest plays are list, lits, silt, sits, slit, 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 lists turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, lit, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are its, lis, lit, sis, sit, 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are is, it, li, si, 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 lists and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
lists 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.
lists is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lists, silts, and slits, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lists 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 lists produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.