Hidden inside solitaire sit oralities and solitaire, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 498 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oralities and solitaire tie for the highest Scrabble score from solitaire at 9 points. The top 10 of 498 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in solitaire: one comes from rearranging its letters, and solitaire 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 oralities and solitaire, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solitaire. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lairiest, listeria, and roiliest, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in solitaire produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolate and saltier. For points, the strongest plays are airiest, estriol, iolites, isolate, laities, liatris, loiters, oiliest, olestra, oralist, realist, retails, rialtos, saltier, saltire, siltier, slatier, tailers, tailors, and toilers — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling solitaire turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, sailor, serial, trails, and trials. For points, the strongest plays are aiolis, airest, alerts, alters, aorist, ariels, ariose, ariosi, aristo, artels, artsie, estral, iolite, laster, liaise, lister, liters, litres, loiter, lories, oaters, oatier, oilers, oilier, orates, oriels, osetra, osteal, ostler, ratels, ratios, relist, reoils, resail, retail, retial, rialto, sailer, sailor, salter, saltie, satire, satori, serail, serial, slater, solate, solera, sortal, sortie, staler, stelai, stelar, sterol, striae, tailer, tailor, talers, terais, tilers, toiler, toiles, tolars, tories, trails, trials, triols, and triose — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 137 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solitaire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alter, laser, later, least, and liars. For points, the strongest plays are aioli, airts, aisle, alert, alist, aloes, alter, altos, ariel, arils, arise, arles, arose, artel, aster, astir, earls, iotas, irate, islet, istle, lairs, lares, laris, laser, later, lears, least, liars, liers, liras, lirot, litai, litas, liter, lites, litre, lores, loris, loser, lotas, lotsa, oater, oiler, orals, orate, oriel, orles, osier, ostia, rails, raise, rales, ratel, rates, ratio, ratos, reais, reals, relit, reoil, resat, resit, retia, rials, riels, riles, riots, rites, roast, roils, roles, roset, rosti, rotas, rotes, rotis, rotls, serai, seral, setal, sitar, slate, slier, solar, solei, sorel, sorta, stair, stale, stare, steal, stela, stile, stoae, stoai, stole, store, stria, taels, tails, taler, tales, tares, taros, tarsi, taser, teals, tears, telia, teloi, telos, terai, tesla, tiers, tiler, tiles, tires, tirls, tiros, toeas, toile, toils, tolar, tolas, toles, toras, tores, torii, torse, torsi, trail, trial, tries, triol, trios, and trois — 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 solitaire produces 165 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also, arts, last, late, lets, and liar. For points, the strongest plays are aero, ails, airs, airt, aits, ales, alit, aloe, also, alto, alts, ares, arie, aril, aros, arse, arts, ates, lair, lari, lars, lase, last, late, lati, lats, lear, leas, leis, lest, lets, liar, lias, lier, lies, lira, lire, liri, list, lite, lits, lore, lose, lost, lota, loti, lots, oars, oast, oats, oils, olea, oles, oral, ores, orle, orts, osar, rail, rais, rale, rase, rate, rato, rats, real, reis, rest, rets, rial, rias, riel, rile, riot, rise, rite, roes, roil, role, rose, rota, rote, roti, rotl, rots, sail, sale, salt, sari, sate, sati, seal, sear, seat, sera, seta, sial, silo, silt, sire, site, slat, slit, sloe, slot, soar, soil, sola, sole, soli, sora, sore, sori, sort, star, stir, stoa, earl, ears, east, eats, eras, eros, erst, etas, ilea, ilia, iota, ires, iris, isle, tael, tail, tale, tali, taos, tare, taro, tars, tase, teal, tear, teas, tela, tels, tier, ties, tile, tils, tire, tirl, tiro, toea, toes, toil, tola, tole, tora, tore, tori, tors, tosa, tres, trio, and tsar — 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 solitaire turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ail, air, ais, ait, ale, als, alt, are, aro, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, els, era, ers, est, eta, ire, its, lar, las, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, lor, lot, oar, oat, oes, oil, ole, ora, ore, ors, ort, ose, rai, ras, rat, rei, res, ret, ria, roe, rot, sae, sal, sat, sea, sei, sel, ser, set, sir, sit, sol, sot, sri, tae, tao, tar, tas, tea, tel, tes, tie, til, tis, toe, and tor — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solitaire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, is, it, la, li, lo, oe, oi, or, os, re, si, so, ta, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in solitaire plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in solitaire 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.
solitaire 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 four senses for solitaire. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
solitaire is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing solitaire unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oralities and solitaire, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from solitaire 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 solitaire produce 498 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 137 five-letter words, 165 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.