skitter needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skitter is the highest-scoring word from skitter, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in skitter — and it is skitter itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling skitter turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sitter and strike. For points, the strongest plays are kiters, strike, and trikes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skitter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kites, skirt, tires, and tries. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including kites, skirt and keirs.
Rearranging the letters in skitter produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kite, kits and rest. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including kite, kits and risk.
Unscrambling skitter turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, kit and set. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including kit, ski and irk.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in skitter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in skitter 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.
skitter 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in skitter carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for skitter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
skitter is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skitter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is skitter, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from skitter 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 skitter produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.