Hidden inside relistens sit enlisters, listeners, reenlists and 1 other, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 406 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enlisters, listeners, reenlists and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from relistens at 9 points. The top 10 of 406 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 nine-letter words hiding in relistens: three come from rearranging its letters, and relistens itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enlisters, listeners, reenlists, and relistens, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relistens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with silenter. For points, the strongest plays are enlister, leisters, listener, liteness, nestlers, reenlist, reinless, relisten, sentries, setlines, silenter, and tireless — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in relistens produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, listens, and resents. For points, the strongest plays are enisles, enlists, ensiles, entires, entries, estrins, inserts, ireless, leister, lenites, liernes, linters, lisente, listees, listens, listers, nesters, nestler, nestles, netless, relents, relines, relists, renests, resents, resiles, resites, retiles, retines, seiners, seniles, sereins, serines, sestine, setline, silents, sinters, sterile, streels, strines, telesis, tensile, tieless, tinsels, tressel, and trienes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling relistens turns up 90 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire, listen, relies, resent, resist, and series. For points, the strongest plays are elints, elites, enisle, enlist, ensile, enters, entire, esters, estrin, inerts, inlets, insert, insets, intels, inters, islets, istles, lenite, lenses, lessen, lesser, lierne, liners, linter, listee, listen, lister, liters, litres, nereis, nester, nestle, niters, nitres, reests, relent, relets, relies, reline, relist, renest, rentes, resent, resets, resile, resins, resist, resite, resits, reties, retile, retine, rinses, seiner, seines, seiser, senile, sensei, serein, serest, series, serine, serins, silent, sinter, sirees, sirens, sister, sleets, sliest, sneers, steels, steers, steins, steles, steres, sterns, stiles, streel, strine, tenesi, tenser, tenses, ternes, tilers, tinsel, treens, triene, triens, and trines — 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 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relistens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, lines, lists, nests, rents, rests, and risen. For points, the strongest plays are elint, elite, enter, ernes, erses, esnes, ester, inert, inlet, inset, intel, inter, isles, islet, istle, leers, leets, lenes, lenis, lense, liens, liers, liner, lines, lints, lists, liter, lites, litre, neist, nerts, nests, niter, nites, nitre, reels, reest, reins, relet, relit, rente, rents, reses, reset, resin, resit, rests, retie, riels, riles, rinse, risen, rises, rites, seels, seers, seine, seise, senes, sense, sente, senti, sents, seres, serin, silts, sines, siree, siren, sires, sites, sleet, slier, slits, sneer, snits, steel, steer, stein, stele, stere, stern, sties, stile, stirs, teels, teens, teins, teles, tense, teres, terne, terns, terse, tiers, tiler, tiles, tines, tires, tirls, treen, trees, tress, tries, and trine — 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 relistens produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lent, less, lets, lies, line, and list. For points, the strongest plays are eels, else, erne, erns, erst, eses, esne, esse, ests, ires, isle, leer, lees, leet, leis, lens, lent, less, lest, lets, lien, lier, lies, line, lins, lint, lire, list, lite, lits, ness, nest, nets, nils, nite, nits, reel, rees, rein, reis, rent, rest, rete, rets, riel, rile, rins, rise, rite, seel, seen, seer, sees, seis, sels, sene, sent, sere, sers, sets, silt, sine, sins, sire, sirs, site, sits, slit, snit, sris, stir, teel, teen, tees, tein, tele, tels, tens, tern, tier, ties, tile, tils, tine, tins, tire, tirl, tree, and tres — 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 relistens turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lit, net, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are eel, els, ens, ere, ern, ers, ess, est, ins, ire, its, lee, lei, let, lie, lin, lis, lit, nee, net, nil, nit, ree, rei, res, ret, rin, see, sei, sel, sen, ser, set, sin, sir, sis, sit, sri, tee, tel, ten, tes, tie, til, tin, and tis — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relistens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are el, en, er, es, et, in, is, it, li, ne, re, si, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in relistens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in relistens and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
relistens is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
relistens is one of four nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relistens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enlisters, listeners, reenlists, and relistens, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relistens 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 relistens produce 406 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 90 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.