Hidden inside suitors sit suitors and tsouris, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
suitors and tsouris tie for the highest Scrabble score from suitors at 7 points. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in suitors: one comes from rearranging its letters, and suitors itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are suitors and tsouris, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling suitors turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rostis, rousts, stours and 4 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in suitors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with riots, sorts and stirs. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including riots, sorts and stirs.
Rearranging the letters in suitors produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, riot and sirs. For points, 28 words tie at 4 points, including ours, riot and sirs.
Unscrambling suitors turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, our and out. For points, 19 words tie at 3 points, including its, our and out.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in suitors plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in suitors and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
suitors 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 one sense for suitors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
suitors is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing suitors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are suitors and tsouris, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from suitors 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 suitors produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.