Hidden inside skill sit kills and skill, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kills and skill tie for the highest Scrabble score from skill at 9 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in skill: one comes from rearranging its letters, and skill itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: kills and skill, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in skill produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kill and silk. For points, the strongest plays are ilks, kill, and silk — 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 skill turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill and ski. For points, the strongest plays are ilk, kis, and ski — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skill. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 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 skill and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
skill 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for skill. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
skill is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skill unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kills and skill, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from skill 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 skill produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.