Hidden inside littered sit littered and retitled, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
littered and retitled tie for the highest Scrabble score from littered at 9 points. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in littered: one comes from rearranging its letters, and littered 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 littered and retitled, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in littered produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is retiled, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling littered turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letter and relied. For points, the strongest plays are dieter, letted, lieder, reedit, relied, retied, retted, tiered, tilted, tirled, and titled — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in littered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tired, title, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are deter, edile, eider, elder, elide, idler, riled, tilde, tiled, tired, treed, and tried — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in littered produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, deli, diet, dirt, edit, lied, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are deer, deet, deil, dele, deli, delt, dere, diel, diet, dire, dirl, dirt, dite, dree, edit, eide, idle, ired, lede, lied, rede, reed, ride, teed, tide, and tied — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling littered turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, led, let, lid, lie, lit, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dee, del, die, dit, eld, led, lid, red, rid, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in littered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 littered 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.
littered 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 littered. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
littered is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing littered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are littered and retitled, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from littered 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 littered produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.