Hidden inside litotes sit litotes and toilets, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
litotes and toilets tie for the highest Scrabble score from litotes at 7 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in litotes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and litotes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with toilets. For points, the strongest plays are litotes and toilets — 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 litotes turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with titles and toilet. For points, the strongest plays are litest, lottes, titles, toiles, and toilet — 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 litotes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stole and title. For points, the strongest plays are islet, istle, lites, lotte, solei, stile, stilt, stole, teloi, telos, tiles, tilts, title, toile, toils, toits, toles, tolts, and totes — 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 litotes produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies, list, lose, lost, lots, and oils. For points, the strongest plays are isle, leis, lest, lets, lies, list, lite, lits, lose, lost, loti, lots, oils, oles, sett, silo, silt, site, slit, sloe, slot, soil, sole, soli, stet, stot, tels, test, tets, ties, tile, tils, tilt, tits, toes, toil, toit, tole, tolt, tost, tote, and tots — 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 litotes turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lit, lot, oil, and set. For points, the strongest plays are els, est, its, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, lot, oes, oil, ole, ose, sei, sel, set, sit, sol, sot, tel, tes, tet, tie, til, tis, tit, toe, and tot — 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 litotes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, et, is, it, li, lo, oe, oi, os, si, so, te, ti, and to — 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 litotes 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.
litotes 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for litotes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
litotes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing litotes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are litotes and toilets, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from litotes 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 litotes produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.