Hidden inside litanies sit alienist and litanies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 276 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alienist and litanies tie for the highest Scrabble score from litanies at 8 points. The top 10 of 276 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in litanies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and litanies 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 alienist and litanies, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in litanies produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elastin, entails, isatine, laities, liniest, nailset, salient, saltine, slainte, and tenails, 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 litanies turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, listen, and silent. For points, the strongest plays are aliens, alines, elains, elints, enlist, entail, inlets, instal, instil, intels, isatin, latens, liaise, lianes, listen, saline, saltie, seitan, seniti, silane, sileni, silent, stelai, tenail, tenias, tineal, tineas, tinsel, and tisane — 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 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in litanies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, lanes, leans, least, lines, and nails. For points, the strongest plays are aisle, alien, aline, alist, anile, anils, anise, antes, antis, elain, elans, elint, entia, etnas, inlet, inset, intel, intis, islet, istle, lanes, laten, leans, leant, least, lenis, liane, liens, lines, lints, litai, litas, lites, nails, nates, neats, neist, nisei, nites, saint, satin, senti, setal, slain, slant, slate, snail, stain, stale, stane, steal, stein, stela, stile, taels, tails, tains, tales, teals, teins, telia, tenia, tesla, tians, tiles, tinea, and tines — 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 litanies produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east, eats, lane, last, late, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are ails, ains, aits, ales, alit, alts, anes, anil, anis, ante, anti, ants, ates, east, eats, elan, etas, etna, ilea, ilia, inia, inti, isle, lain, lane, lase, last, late, lati, lats, lean, leas, leis, lens, lent, lest, lets, lias, lien, lies, line, lins, lint, list, lite, lits, naes, nail, neat, nest, nets, nils, nisi, nite, nits, sail, sain, sale, salt, sane, sate, sati, seal, seat, sent, seta, sial, silt, sine, site, slat, slit, snit, stan, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, tans, tase, teal, teas, tein, tela, tels, tens, tian, ties, tile, tils, tine, and tins — 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 litanies turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, its, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are ail, ain, ais, ait, ale, als, alt, ane, ani, ant, ate, ats, eat, els, ens, est, eta, ins, its, las, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lin, lis, lit, nae, net, nil, nit, sae, sal, san, sat, sea, sei, sel, sen, set, sin, sit, tae, tan, tas, tea, tel, ten, tes, tie, til, tin, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in litanies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, an, as, at, el, en, es, et, in, is, it, la, li, na, ne, si, ta, 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 litanies 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.
litanies 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 litanies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
litanies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing litanies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alienist and litanies, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from litanies 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 litanies produce 276 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.