Hidden inside relists sit listers and relists, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
listers and relists tie for the highest Scrabble score from relists at 7 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in relists: one comes from rearranging its letters, and relists itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are listers and relists, 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 relists turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resist and sister. For points, the strongest plays are islets, istles, lister, liters, litres, relist, resist, resits, sister, sliest, stiles, and tilers — 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lists, rests, rises, sites, stirs, tires, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are isles, islet, istle, liers, lists, liter, lites, litre, relit, resit, rests, riels, riles, rises, rites, silts, sires, sites, slier, slits, sties, stile, stirs, tiers, tiler, tiles, tires, tirls, tress, and tries — 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 relists produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, lies, list, rest, rise, and sets. For points, the strongest plays are erst, ests, ires, isle, leis, less, lest, lets, lier, lies, lire, list, lite, lits, reis, rest, rets, riel, rile, rise, rite, seis, sels, sers, sets, silt, sire, sirs, site, sits, slit, sris, stir, tels, tier, ties, tile, tils, tire, tirl, 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 relists turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lit, set, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are els, ers, ess, est, ire, its, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, rei, res, ret, sei, sel, ser, set, sir, sis, sit, sri, tel, tes, tie, til, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, et, is, it, li, 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.
Swap a single tile in relists 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.
relists 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
relists is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are listers and relists, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relists 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 relists produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.