Hidden inside settlors sit settlors and slotters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
settlors and slotters tie for the highest Scrabble score from settlors at 8 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in settlors: one comes from rearranging its letters, and settlors itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are settlors and slotters, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in settlors produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lotters, ostlers, settlor, slotter, and sterols, 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 settlors turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losers, sorest, and stores. For points, the strongest plays are lessor, losers, lotter, lottes, ostler, otters, rosets, rottes, sorels, sorest, sortes, sterol, stoles, stores, torses, tortes, tosser, toters, and tsores — 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in settlors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, loses, rests, roles, roses, slots, and sorts. For points, the strongest plays are loess, lores, loser, loses, lotte, orles, otter, rests, roles, roses, roset, rotes, rotls, rotte, setts, sloes, slots, soles, sorel, sores, sorts, stets, stole, store, stots, telos, tests, toles, tolts, tores, torse, torte, torts, toter, totes, tress, trets, and trots — 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 settlors produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, lose, loss, lost, lots, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are eros, erst, ests, less, lest, lets, lore, lose, loss, lost, lots, oles, ores, orle, orts, oses, rest, rets, roes, role, rose, rote, rotl, rots, sels, sers, sets, sett, sloe, slot, sole, sols, sore, sort, sots, stet, stot, tels, test, tets, toes, tole, tolt, tore, tors, tort, toss, tost, tote, tots, tres, tret, and trot — 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 settlors turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are els, ers, ess, est, let, lor, lot, oes, ole, ore, ors, ort, ose, res, ret, roe, rot, sel, ser, set, sol, sos, sot, tel, tes, tet, toe, tor, and tot — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in settlors. 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 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in settlors plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in settlors and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
settlors 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 settlors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
settlors is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing settlors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are settlors and slotters, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from settlors 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 settlors produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.