Hidden inside poloists sit poloists and topsoils, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
poloists and topsoils tie for the highest Scrabble score from poloists at 10 points. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in poloists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and poloists itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are poloists and topsoils, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in poloists produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pistols, poloist, and topsoil, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling poloists turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pilots, splits and spoils. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including pilots, splits and spoils.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poloists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lists, pilot and plots. For points, 27 words tie at 7 points, including pilot, plots and pools.
Rearranging the letters in poloists produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lips, list and loss. For points, 31 words tie at 6 points, including lips, oops and pits.
Unscrambling poloists turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, lip and lit. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including lip, pit and poo.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in poloists. 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.
Swap a single tile in poloists and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
poloists 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.
poloists is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing poloists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are poloists and topsoils, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from poloists 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 poloists produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.