Hidden inside settlor sit lotters, settlor, and slotter, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lotters, settlor, and slotter tie for the highest Scrabble score from settlor at 7 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in settlor: two come from rearranging its letters, and settlor 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 lotters, settlor, and slotter, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling settlor turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lotter, lottes, ostler and 5 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in settlor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, roles, stole, and store. For points, 24 words tie at 5 points, including loser, roles and stole.
Rearranging the letters in settlor produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lose and lost. For points, 43 words tie at 4 points, including lets, lose and lost.
Unscrambling settlor turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot, set, and toe. For points, 27 words tie at 3 points, including let, lot and set.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in settlor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and to. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including or, so and to.
12 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in settlor plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in settlor 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.
settlor 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 one sense for settlor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
settlor is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing settlor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lotters, settlor, and slotter, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from settlor 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 settlor produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.