Hidden inside lotters sit lotters, settlor, and slotter, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lotters, settlor, and slotter tie for the highest Scrabble score from lotters at 7 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in lotters: two come from rearranging its letters, and lotters 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 lotters, settlor, and slotter, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lotters turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lotter, lottes, ostler and 5 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lotters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, roles, stole, and store. For points, 24 words tie at 5 points, including loser, roles and stole.
Rearranging the letters in lotters produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lose and lost. For points, 43 words tie at 4 points, including lets, lose and lost.
Unscrambling lotters turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot, set, and toe. For points, 27 words tie at 3 points, including let, lot and set.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lotters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including or, so and to.
12 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lotters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lotters 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.
lotters is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
lotters is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lotters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lotters, settlor, and slotter, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lotters 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 lotters produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.