Hidden inside solitaires sit solitaires and solitaries, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 686 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
solitaires and solitaries tie for the highest Scrabble score from solitaires at 10 points. The top 10 of 686 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in solitaires: one comes from rearranging its letters, and solitaires itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are solitaires and solitaries, 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 solitaires turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are liatrises, listerias, oralities, ostiaries, serialist, 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 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solitaires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolates. For points, the strongest plays are estriols, isolates, lairiest, listeria, olestras, oralists, realists, roiliest, saltiers, saltires, satirise, and solarise — 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 solitaires produces 59 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolate, sailors, saltier, and stories. For points, the strongest plays are airiest, airless, aorists, aristos, artless, artsies, estriol, iolites, isolate, laities, lassoer, lasters, liaises, liatris, listers, loiases, loiasis, loiters, lorises, oarless, oiliest, olestra, oralist, osetras, ossetra, ostlers, realist, relists, resails, retails, rialtos, rissole, rosiest, sailers, sailors, salters, saltier, salties, saltire, satires, satoris, serails, serials, serosal, silesia, siltier, slaters, slatier, solates, soleras, sorites, sortals, sorties, sterols, stories, tailers, tailors, toilers, and trioses — 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 solitaires turns up 120 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, alerts, alters, lasers, losers, raises, and resist. For points, the strongest plays are aiolis, airest, aisles, alerts, alters, aorist, ariels, ariose, ariosi, arises, aristo, artels, artsie, assert, assoil, assort, asters, estral, iolite, irises, islets, istles, lasers, lassie, laster, leasts, lessor, liaise, liases, lister, liters, litres, loiter, lories, losers, oaters, oatier, oilers, oilier, orates, oriels, osetra, osiers, osteal, ostler, raises, rassle, ratels, ratios, relist, reoils, resail, resist, resits, retail, retial, rialto, roasts, rosets, rostis, sailer, sailor, salter, saltie, satire, satori, seisor, serail, serais, serial, serosa, siesta, siloes, sister, sistra, sitars, slater, slates, sliest, solars, solate, solera, sorels, sorest, sortal, sortes, sortie, stairs, staler, stales, stares, steals, stelai, stelar, sterol, stiles, stoles, stores, striae, tailer, tailor, talers, tasers, tassel, tassie, terais, teslas, tilers, toiler, toiles, tolars, tories, torses, tosser, trails, trials, triols, triose, tsores, and tsoris — 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 196 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solitaires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roast, roles, roses, sails, sales, salts, and seals. For points, the strongest plays are roast, roils, roles, roses, roset, rosti, rotas, rotes, rotis, rotls, sails, sales, salts, saris, saros, sates, satis, seals, sears, seats, serai, seral, setal, sials, silos, silts, sires, sisal, sitar, sites, slate, slats, slier, slits, sloes, slots, soars, soils, solar, solas, solei, soles, soras, sorel, sores, sorta, sorts, stair, stale, stare, stars, steal, stela, sties, stile, stirs, stoae, stoai, stoas, stole, store, stria, taels, tails, taler, tales, tares, taros, tarsi, taser, tases, tasse, tasso, teals, tears, telia, teloi, telos, terai, tesla, aioli, airts, aisle, alert, alist, aloes, alter, altos, ariel, arils, arise, arles, arose, arses, arsis, artel, asset, aster, astir, earls, easts, iotas, irate, isles, islet, issei, istle, lairs, lares, laris, laser, lases, lassi, lasso, lasts, later, lears, least, liars, liers, liras, lirot, lists, litai, litas, liter, lites, litre, loess, lores, loris, loser, loses, lotas, lotsa, oases, oasis, oasts, oater, oiler, orals, orate, oriel, orles, osier, ossia, ostia, rails, raise, rales, rases, ratel, rates, ratio, ratos, reais, reals, relit, reoil, resat, resit, rests, retia, rials, riels, riles, riots, rises, rites, tiers, tiler, tiles, tires, tirls, tiros, toeas, toile, toils, tolar, tolas, toles, toras, tores, torii, torse, torsi, tosas, trail, trass, tress, trial, tries, triol, trios, trois, and tsars — 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 solitaires produces 184 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also, arts, last, late, less, and lets. 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, lass, last, late, lati, lats, lear, leas, leis, less, lest, lets, liar, lias, lier, lies, lira, lire, liri, list, lite, lits, lore, lose, loss, lost, lota, loti, lots, oars, oast, oats, oils, olea, oles, oral, ores, orle, orts, osar, oses, ossa, 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, sals, salt, sari, sate, sati, seal, sear, seas, seat, seis, sels, sera, sers, seta, sets, sial, silo, silt, sire, sirs, site, sits, slat, slit, sloe, slot, soar, soil, sola, sole, soli, sols, sora, sore, sori, sort, sots, sris, star, stir, stoa, earl, ears, east, eats, eras, eros, erst, ests, etas, ilea, ilia, iota, ires, iris, isle, tael, tail, tale, tali, taos, tare, taro, tars, tase, tass, teal, tear, teas, tela, tels, tier, ties, tile, tils, tire, tirl, tiro, toea, toes, toil, tola, tole, tora, tore, tori, tors, tosa, toss, 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 solitaires turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ail, air, ais, ait, ale, als, alt, are, aro, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, ear, eat, els, era, ers, ess, 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, sis, sit, sol, sos, 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 solitaires. 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.
solitaires 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 solitaires. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
solitaires is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing solitaires unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are solitaires and solitaries, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from solitaires 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 solitaires produce 686 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 59 seven-letter words, 120 six-letter words, 196 five-letter words, 184 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.