Hidden inside settler sit letters, settler, sterlet and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
letters, settler, sterlet and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from settler at 7 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in settler: three come from rearranging its letters, and settler itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letters. For points, the strongest plays are letters, settler, sterlet, and trestle — 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 settler turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with letter, settle, and street. For points, the strongest plays are letter, relets, retest, setter, settle, streel, street, and tester — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in settler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steel, steer, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are ester, leers, leets, reels, reest, relet, reset, sleet, steel, steer, stele, stere, teels, teles, teres, terse, trees, and trets — 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 settler produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lets, rest, test, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are eels, else, erst, leer, lees, leet, lest, lets, reel, rees, rest, rete, rets, seel, seer, sere, sett, stet, teel, tees, tele, tels, test, tets, tree, tres, and tret — 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 settler turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are eel, els, ere, ers, est, lee, let, ree, res, ret, see, sel, ser, set, tee, tel, tes, and tet — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in settler. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are el, er, es, et, re, and te, 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 settler 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.
settler 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for settler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
settler is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing settler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are letters, settler, sterlet, and trestle, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from settler 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 settler produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.