Hidden inside slickster sit slickster, sticklers, and strickles, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 317 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
slickster, sticklers, and strickles tie for the highest Scrabble score from slickster at 15 points. The top 10 of 317 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in slickster: two come from rearranging its letters, and slickster itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are slickster, sticklers, and strickles, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slickster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stickers. For points, the strongest plays are slickers, slickest, stickers, stickler, stickles, strickle, ticklers, and trickles — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slickster produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sickest, sticker, strikes, and tickles. For points, the strongest plays are lickers, rickets, sickest, sickles, slicker, sticker, stickle, stricks, tickers, tickler, tickles, and trickle — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slickster turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises, kisser, resist, sicker, sister, skirts, and slices. For points, the strongest plays are clerks, ickers, licker, sicker, sickle, slicks, sticks, strick, ticker, tickle, and tricks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slickster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, kites, licks, likes, lists, rests, and rices. For points, the strongest plays are clerk, icker, licks, recks, ricks, sicks, slick, stick, ticks, and trick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slickster produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, kiss, kite, kits, less, lets, and lice. For points, the strongest plays are icks, lick, reck, rick, sick, and tick — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slickster turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its, kit, let, lie, lit, and set. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 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 slickster. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in slickster plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in slickster and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
slickster is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
slickster is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slickster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are slickster, sticklers, and strickles, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slickster 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 slickster produce 317 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.