Hidden inside neolith sit hotline and neolith, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hotline and neolith tie for the highest Scrabble score from neolith at 10 points. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in neolith: one comes from rearranging its letters, and neolith 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 hotline and neolith, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neolith. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hotel and thine. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including hotel, thine and helio.
Rearranging the letters in neolith produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hint, hole and into. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including hint, hole and then.
Unscrambling neolith turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, hit and hot. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including hen, hit and hot.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neolith. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and hi.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in neolith plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in neolith 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.
neolith 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 neolith. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
neolith is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing neolith unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hotline and neolith, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from neolith 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 neolith produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.