Hidden inside selectors sit corselets and selectors, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
corselets and selectors tie for the highest Scrabble score from selectors at 11 points. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in selectors: one comes from rearranging its letters, and selectors 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 corselets and selectors, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in selectors. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coreless, corselet, corslets, costrels, crosslet, electors, electros, sclerose, and selector, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in selectors produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closest, closets, secrets, sectors, and selects. For points, the strongest plays are closers, closest, closets, colters, corsets, corslet, costers, costrel, creoles, cresols, cresset, ecloses, elector, electro, escorts, lectors, resects, scoters, secrets, sectors, selects, and tercels — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling selectors turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closer, closes, closet, elects, losers, recess, and scores. For points, the strongest plays are ceorls, certes, cestos, closer, closes, closet, colter, corses, corset, cosets, cosset, coster, creels, creole, cresol, crests, crosse, eclose, elects, erects, escort, escots, lector, recess, rectos, resect, scores, scoter, screes, secret, sector, select, socles, telcos, tercel, and terces — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in selectors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, cores, costs, cross, elect, loser, and loses. For points, the strongest plays are celts, ceorl, ceres, ceros, certs, cetes, close, clots, coles, colts, cores, corse, coses, coset, costs, cotes, creel, cress, crest, cross, elect, erect, escot, recto, score, scots, scree, sects, soces, socle, telco, terce, and torcs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in selectors produces 87 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cost, else, less, lets, lose, and loss. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cels, celt, cere, cero, cert, cess, cete, clot, cole, cols, colt, core, cors, coss, cost, cote, cots, ecos, locs, orcs, recs, rocs, scot, secs, sect, tecs, and torc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling selectors turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot, see, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cel, col, cor, cos, cot, eco, loc, orc, rec, roc, sec, soc, and tec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in selectors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, et, lo, oe, or, os, re, so, te, and to — 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 selectors plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in selectors 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.
selectors 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 two senses for selectors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
selectors is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing selectors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are corselets and selectors, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from selectors 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 selectors produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 87 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.