loyalists needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loyalists is the highest-scoring word from loyalists, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in loyalists — and it is loyalists itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling loyalists produces exactly one eight-letter word: loyalist. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling loyalists produces exactly one seven-letter word: saltily. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling loyalists turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stalls. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including aliyos, aliyot and alloys.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loyalists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasts, lists and loyal. For points, 22 words tie at 8 points, including loyal, salty and silly.
Rearranging the letters in loyalists produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, last and lays. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including lays, says and soya.
Unscrambling loyalists turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ass and ill. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including lay, say and soy.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loyalists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in loyalists and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
loyalists 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 loyalists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
loyalists is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing loyalists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is loyalists, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from loyalists 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 loyalists produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 13 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.