pistols needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble PLOTSIS, TOPLISS or SPITLOS and you get the same 7 letters as PISTOLS: so the words from PISTOLS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
pistols is the highest-scoring word from pistols, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in pistols — and it is pistols itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pistols turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pilots, splits, spoils, and spoilt. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including pilots, splits and spoils.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pistols. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lists, pilot and plots. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including pilot, plots and posts.
Rearranging the letters in pistols produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lips, list and loss. For points, 25 words tie at 6 points, including lips, pits and plot.
Unscrambling pistols turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, lip and lit. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including lip, pit and pot.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pistols. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in pistols plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pistols 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.
pistols 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 one sense for pistols. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
pistols is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pistols unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pistols, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pistols 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 pistols produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.