Hidden inside slight sit lights and slight, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lights and slight tie for the highest Scrabble score from slight at 10 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in slight: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slight itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: lights and slight, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slight. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: light and sight, 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 slight produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, list, and this. For points, the strongest plays are ghis and sigh — 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 slight turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit, its, lit, and sit. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slight. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are hi and sh — each worth 5 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 slight and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
slight 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 five senses for slight. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
slight is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slight unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lights and slight, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slight 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 slight produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.