Hidden inside silted sit delist, idlest, listed and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
delist, idlest, listed and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from silted at 7 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in silted: four come from rearranging its letters, and silted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listed. For points, the strongest plays are delist, idlest, listed, silted, and tildes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in silted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets, edits, and slide. For points, the strongest plays are deils, deist, delis, delts, diets, dites, edits, idles, isled, sidle, sited, slide, stied, tides, tilde, and tiled — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in silted produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, diet, edit, lets, lids, and lied. For points, the strongest plays are deil, deli, dels, delt, desi, diel, dies, diet, dite, dits, edit, elds, ides, idle, lids, lied, side, sild, sled, slid, teds, tide, and tied — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling silted turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, its, led, let, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are del, die, dis, dit, eds, eld, ids, led, lid, and ted — each worth 4 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 silted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 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 silted and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
silted 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.
silted is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing silted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are delist, idlest, listed, silted, and tildes, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from silted 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 silted produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.