Hidden inside solon sit loons, nolos, snool and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loons, nolos, snool and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from solon at 5 points. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in solon: three come from rearranging its letters, and solon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are loons, nolos, snool, and solon, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in solon produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with solo and soon. For points, the strongest plays are loon, loos, nolo, onos, solo, and soon — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling solon turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with son. For points, the strongest plays are loo, noo, nos, ono, ons, sol, and son — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are lo, no, on, os, and so — each worth 2 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 solon 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.
solon 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 one sense for solon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
solon is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing solon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are loons, nolos, snool, and solon, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from solon 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 solon produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.