Hidden inside trolls sit stroll and trolls, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stroll and trolls tie for the highest Scrabble score from trolls at 6 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in trolls: one comes from rearranging its letters, and trolls itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trolls. For points, the strongest plays are stroll and trolls — 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trolls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rolls, tolls, and troll. For points, the strongest plays are rolls, rotls, tolls, and troll — 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 trolls produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lost, lots, roll, slot, sort, and toll. For points, the strongest plays are lost, lots, orts, roll, rotl, rots, slot, sort, toll, and tors — 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 trolls turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lot. For points, the strongest plays are lor, lot, ors, ort, rot, sol, sot, and tor — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trolls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are lo, or, os, so, and to — 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 trolls and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
trolls 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for trolls. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
trolls is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trolls unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stroll and trolls, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trolls 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 trolls produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.