Hidden inside lois sit oils, silo, soil and 1 other, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 4 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LOIS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to OILS, SILO, SOIL and SOLI.
oils, silo, soil and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from lois at 4 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in lois produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oils and soli. For points, the strongest plays are oils, silo, soil, and soli — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
33 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in lois plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lois and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oils, silo, soil, and soli, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lois 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 lois produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 four-letter words, 3 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.