Hidden inside saloons sit saloons and solanos, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
saloons and solanos tie for the highest Scrabble score from saloons at 7 points. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in saloons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and saloons 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 saloons and solanos, 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 saloons turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are salons, saloon, snools, solano, solans, and solons, 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saloons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loans and solos. For points, the strongest plays are lasso, loans, loons, nolos, salon, snool, solan, solas, solon, and solos — 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 saloons produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, loan, loss, solo, sons, and soon. For points, the strongest plays are also, lass, loan, loon, loos, loss, naos, nolo, onos, ossa, sals, sans, sola, solo, sols, sons, and soon — 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 saloons turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass and son. For points, the strongest plays are als, ass, las, loo, noo, nos, ono, ons, sal, san, sol, son, and sos — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in saloons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are al, an, as, la, lo, na, no, on, os, and so — 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 saloons 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.
saloons 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for saloons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
saloons is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing saloons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are saloons and solanos, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from saloons 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 saloons produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.