Hidden inside quills sit quills and squill, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
quills and squill tie for the highest Scrabble score from quills at 15 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in quills: one comes from rearranging its letters, and quills itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are quills and squill, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quills produces exactly one five-letter word: quill. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in quills plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in quills 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.
quills 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for quills. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
quills is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing quills unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are quills and squill, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from quills 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 quills produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.