Hidden inside literal sit literal and tallier, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
literal and tallier tie for the highest Scrabble score from literal at 7 points. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in literal: one comes from rearranging its letters, and literal 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 literal and tallier, 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 literal turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with taller. For points, the strongest plays are retail, retial, rillet, tailer, taille, taller, telial, and tiller — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in literal. 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, ileal, iller, irate, later, liter, litre, ratel, relit, retia, rille, taler, telia, terai, tiler, trail, trial, and trill — 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 literal produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with late, liar, rate, real, tail, tale, and tall. For points, the strongest plays are airt, alit, arie, aril, earl, ilea, lair, lari, late, lati, leal, lear, liar, lier, lilt, lira, lire, lite, rail, rale, rate, real, rial, riel, rile, rill, rite, tael, tail, tale, tali, tall, tare, teal, tear, tela, tell, tier, tile, till, 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 literal turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, all, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ail, air, ait, ale, all, alt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, ell, era, eta, ill, 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 literal. 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.
Swap a single tile in literal 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.
literal 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 five senses for literal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
literal is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing literal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are literal and tallier, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from literal 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 literal produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.