Hidden inside solitary sit royalist and solitary, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 275 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
royalist and solitary tie for the highest Scrabble score from solitary at 11 points. The top 10 of 275 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in solitary: one comes from rearranging its letters, and solitary itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are royalist and solitary, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in solitary produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are orality, ostiary, and trysail, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling solitary turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sailor, trails, and trials. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including aliyos, aliyot and artily.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solitary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liars, riots and roast. For points, 20 words tie at 8 points, including salty, story and trays.
Rearranging the letters in solitary produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also and arts. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including lays, soya and stay.
Unscrambling solitary turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art and its. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including lay, say and soy.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solitary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in solitary plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in solitary and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
solitary 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in solitary carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for solitary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
solitary is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing solitary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are royalist and solitary, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from solitary 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 solitary produce 275 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.