Hidden inside lorises sit lorises and rissole, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lorises and rissole tie for the highest Scrabble score from lorises at 7 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lorises: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lorises 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 lorises and rissole, 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 lorises turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losers. For points, the strongest plays are lessor, lories, losers, oilers, oriels, osiers, reoils, seisor, siloes, and sorels — 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lorises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, loses, rises, roles, and roses. For points, the strongest plays are isles, liers, loess, lores, loris, loser, loses, oiler, oriel, orles, osier, reoil, riels, riles, rises, roils, roles, roses, silos, sires, slier, sloes, soils, solei, soles, sorel, and sores — 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 lorises produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lies, lose, loss, oils, rise, and role. For points, the strongest plays are eros, ires, isle, leis, less, lier, lies, lire, lore, lose, loss, oils, oles, ores, orle, oses, reis, riel, rile, rise, roes, roil, role, rose, seis, sels, sers, silo, sire, sirs, sloe, soil, sole, soli, sols, sore, sori, and sris — 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 lorises turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, oil, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are els, ers, ess, ire, lei, lie, lis, lor, oes, oil, ole, ore, ors, ose, rei, res, roe, sei, sel, ser, sir, sis, sol, sos, and sri — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lorises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, is, li, lo, oe, oi, or, os, re, si, and so — 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 lorises 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.
lorises 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.
lorises is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lorises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lorises and rissole, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lorises 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 lorises produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.