Hidden inside skittle sit kittles and skittle, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kittles and skittle tie for the highest Scrabble score from skittle at 11 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in skittle: one comes from rearranging its letters, and skittle itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kittles and skittle, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling skittle turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with titles. For points, the strongest plays are kittel, kittle, and likest — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skittle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kites, likes, and title. For points, the strongest plays are kelts, kilts, kites, likes, skite, and tikes — 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 skittle produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kite, kits, lets, lies, like, list, and silk. For points, the strongest plays are elks, ilks, kelt, kilt, kist, kite, kits, leks, like, sike, silk, skit, and tike — 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 skittle turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, kit, let, lie, lit, set, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are elk, ilk, kis, kit, lek, ski, and tsk — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skittle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. 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 skittle 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.
skittle 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 two senses for skittle. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
skittle is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skittle unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kittles and skittle, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from skittle 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 skittle produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.