Hidden inside strips sit spirts, sprits, stirps and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
spirts, sprits, stirps and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from strips at 8 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in strips: three come from rearranging its letters, and strips itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with strips. For points, the strongest plays are spirts, sprits, stirps, and strips — 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strips. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spits, stirs, strip, and trips. For points, the strongest plays are priss, spirt, spits, sprit, stirp, strip, and trips — 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 strips produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pits, psst, rips, sips, sirs, sits, and spit. For points, the strongest plays are piss, pits, psis, psst, rips, sips, spit, tips, and trip — 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 strips turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pit, rip, sip, sir, sit, and tip. For points, the strongest plays are pis, pit, psi, pst, rip, sip, and tip — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strips. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest play is pi — worth 4 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 strips and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
strips 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 nineteen senses for strips. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
strips is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strips unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are spirts, sprits, stirps, and strips, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strips 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 strips produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.