Hidden inside surtitles sit sultriest and surtitles, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 278 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sultriest and surtitles tie for the highest Scrabble score from surtitles at 9 points. The top 10 of 278 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in surtitles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and surtitles 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 sultriest and surtitles, 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 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surtitles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rustiest. For points, the strongest plays are lustiest, rustiest, slitters, sluttier, surliest, surtitle, and trusties — 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 surtitles produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with results, sitters, and turtles. For points, the strongest plays are listers, litters, lusters, lustier, lustres, lutists, relists, results, ruliest, rustles, rutiles, sitters, slitter, suiters, sutlers, tilters, turtles, and ulsters — 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 surtitles turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resist, result, sister, sitter, suites, surest, and tissue. For points, the strongest plays are estrus, islets, issuer, istles, lister, liters, litest, litres, litter, luster, lustre, lutist, relist, resist, resits, result, russet, rustle, rutile, sieurs, sister, sitter, sliest, stiles, stilts, struts, sturts, suiter, suites, surest, sutler, testis, tetris, tilers, tilter, tissue, titers, titles, titres, triste, truest, trusts, tsuris, tuiles, tulsis, turtle, tusser, tussle, ulster, utiles, and utters — 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 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surtitles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue, lists, lures, rests, rises, rules, and sites. For points, the strongest plays are etuis, ileus, isles, islet, issue, istle, liers, lieus, lists, liter, lites, litre, lures, lusts, lutes, relit, resit, rests, riels, riles, rises, risus, rites, rules, ruses, rusts, setts, sieur, silts, sires, sites, situs, slier, slits, slues, slurs, sluts, stets, sties, stile, stilt, stirs, strut, sturt, suers, suets, suite, suits, tests, tetri, tiers, tiler, tiles, tilts, tires, tirls, titer, title, titre, tress, trets, tries, trite, trues, truss, trust, tuile, tules, tulsi, users, uteri, utile, and utter — 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 surtitles produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, lies, list, lure, rest, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are erst, ests, etui, ires, isle, leis, less, lest, lets, lier, lies, lieu, lire, list, lite, lits, litu, lues, lure, lust, lute, reis, rest, rets, riel, rile, rise, rite, rues, rule, ruse, rust, ruts, seis, sels, sers, sets, sett, silt, sire, sirs, site, sits, slit, slue, slur, slut, sris, stet, stir, suer, sues, suet, suit, sure, tels, test, tets, tier, ties, tile, tils, tilt, tire, tirl, tits, tres, tret, true, tuis, tule, tuts, user, uses, and utes — 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 surtitles turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lit, set, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are els, ers, ess, est, ire, its, lei, let, leu, lie, lis, lit, rei, res, ret, rue, rut, sei, sel, ser, set, sir, sis, sit, sri, sue, sus, tel, tes, tet, tie, til, tis, tit, tui, tut, use, ute, and uts — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surtitles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, et, is, it, li, re, si, te, ti, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in surtitles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in surtitles 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.
surtitles is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for surtitles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
surtitles is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing surtitles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sultriest and surtitles, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from surtitles 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 surtitles produce 278 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.