Hidden inside litera sit retail, retial, and tailer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LITERA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to RETAIL, RETIAL and TAILER.
retail, retial, and tailer tie for the highest Scrabble score from litera at 6 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling litera turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are retail, retial, and tailer, 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in litera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, later, trail, and trial. For points, the strongest plays are alert, alter, ariel, artel, irate, later, liter, litre, ratel, relit, retia, taler, telia, terai, tiler, trail, and trial — 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 litera produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, liar, rate, real, tail, tale, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are airt, alit, arie, aril, earl, ilea, lair, lari, late, lati, lear, liar, lier, lira, lire, lite, rail, rale, rate, real, rial, riel, rile, rite, tael, tail, tale, tali, tare, teal, tear, tela, tier, tile, tire, and tirl — 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 litera turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ail, air, ait, ale, alt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, eta, ire, lar, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lit, rai, rat, rei, ret, ria, tae, tar, tea, tel, tie, and til — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in litera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, at, el, er, et, it, la, li, re, 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.
37 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in litera plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in litera and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retail, retial, and tailer, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from litera 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 litera produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.