Hidden inside polis sit lipos, polis, and spoil, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lipos, polis, and spoil tie for the highest Scrabble score from polis at 7 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in polis: two come from rearranging its letters, and polis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spoil. For points, the strongest plays are lipos, polis, and spoil — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in polis produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lips, oils, slip, and soli. For points, the strongest plays are lipo, lips, lisp, lops, piso, pois, pols, slip, and slop — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling polis turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lip, oil, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are lip, lop, ops, pis, poi, pol, pos, psi, sip, and sop — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in polis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — each worth 4 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 polis and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
polis 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.
polis is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing polis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lipos, polis, and spoil, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from polis 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 polis produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.