Hidden inside solstices sit solecists and solstices, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
solecists and solstices tie for the highest Scrabble score from solstices at 11 points. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in solstices: one comes from rearranging its letters, and solstices 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 solecists and solstices, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solstices. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are costless, ossicles, solecist, and solstice, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in solstices produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closest and closets. For points, the strongest plays are citoles, closest, closets, cosiest, cossets, loessic, and ossicle — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling solstices turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closes, closet, losses, slices, and tosses. For points, the strongest plays are cestoi, cestos, citole, closes, closet, colies, cosets, cosies, cosset, escots, locies, slices, socles, stelic, stoics, and telcos — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solstices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, costs, lists, loses, sites, slice, and slots. For points, the strongest plays are ceils, celts, cesti, cists, cites, clits, close, clots, coils, coles, colts, coses, coset, cosie, costs, cotes, escot, etics, locie, locis, lotic, oleic, scots, sects, sices, slice, soces, socle, stoic, telco, and telic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in solstices produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cost, ices, less, lets, lice, lies, and list. For points, the strongest plays are ceil, cels, celt, cess, cist, cite, clit, clot, coil, cole, cols, colt, coss, cost, cote, cots, ecos, etic, ices, lice, loci, locs, otic, scot, secs, sect, sice, sics, tecs, and tics — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling solstices turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, its, let, lie, lit, lot, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are cel, cis, col, cos, cot, eco, ice, loc, sec, sic, soc, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solstices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, et, is, it, li, lo, oe, oi, os, si, so, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in solstices plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in solstices 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.
solstices 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 solstices. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
solstices is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing solstices unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are solecists and solstices, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from solstices 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 solstices produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.