Hidden inside singlets sit glistens, singlets, and sniglets, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 215 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
glistens, singlets, and sniglets tie for the highest Scrabble score from singlets at 9 points. The top 10 of 215 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in singlets: two come from rearranging its letters, and singlets 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 glistens, singlets, and sniglets, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in singlets produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listens and singles. For points, the strongest plays are glisten, ingests, legists, signets, singles, singlet, sniglet, stinges, and tingles — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling singlets turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listen, silent, single, and stings. For points, the strongest plays are gentil, glints, glisse, gneiss, ingest, ingles, legist, legits, signet, singes, single, slings, stinge, stings, tinges, and tingle — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in singlets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lines, lists, nests, signs, sings, sites, and sting. For points, the strongest plays are gelts, gents, gests, gilts, gists, gites, glens, glint, ingle, legit, lings, segni, sengi, signs, singe, sings, sling, sting, tinge, and tings — 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 singlets produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, legs, lent, less, lets, lies, and line. For points, the strongest plays are egis, engs, gels, gelt, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gilt, gins, gist, gite, gits, glen, legs, ling, negs, segs, sign, sigs, sing, tegs, and ting — 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 singlets turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, its, leg, let, lie, lit, and net. For points, the strongest plays are eng, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, leg, neg, seg, sig, and teg — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in singlets. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — 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 singlets 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.
singlets 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 3-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 singlets. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
singlets is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing singlets unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are glistens, singlets, and sniglets, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from singlets 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 singlets produce 215 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.