Hidden inside tailors sit oralist, rialtos, and tailors, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 206 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oralist, rialtos, and tailors tie for the highest Scrabble score from tailors at 7 points. The top 10 of 206 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in tailors: two come from rearranging its letters, and tailors 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 oralist, rialtos, and tailors, 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 tailors turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sailor, trails, and trials. For points, the strongest plays are aorist, aristo, ratios, rialto, sailor, satori, sortal, tailor, tolars, trails, trials, and triols — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liars, riots, roast, solar, stair, tails, and trail. For points, the strongest plays are airts, alist, altos, arils, astir, iotas, lairs, laris, liars, liras, lirot, litas, loris, lotas, lotsa, orals, ostia, rails, ratio, ratos, rials, riots, roast, roils, rosti, rotas, rotis, rotls, sitar, solar, sorta, stair, stoai, stria, tails, taros, tarsi, tirls, tiros, toils, tolar, tolas, toras, torsi, trail, trial, triol, trios, and trois — 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 tailors produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, also, arts, last, liar, list, and lost. For points, the strongest plays are ails, airs, airt, aits, alit, also, alto, alts, aril, aros, arts, iota, lair, lari, lars, last, lati, lats, liar, lias, lira, list, lits, lost, lota, loti, lots, oars, oast, oats, oils, oral, orts, osar, rail, rais, rato, rats, rial, rias, riot, roil, rota, roti, rotl, rots, sail, salt, sari, sati, sial, silo, silt, slat, slit, slot, soar, soil, sola, soli, sora, sori, sort, star, stir, stoa, tail, tali, taos, taro, tars, tils, tirl, tiro, toil, tola, tora, tori, tors, tosa, trio, and tsar — 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 tailors turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, its, lit, lot, oil, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are ail, air, ais, ait, als, alt, aro, ars, art, ats, its, lar, las, lat, lis, lit, lor, lot, oar, oat, oil, ora, ors, ort, rai, ras, rat, ria, rot, sal, sat, sir, sit, sol, sot, sri, tao, tar, tas, til, tis, and tor — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ai, al, ar, as, at, is, it, la, li, lo, oi, or, os, si, so, ta, 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.
Swap a single tile in tailors 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.
tailors 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 four senses for tailors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tailors is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tailors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oralist, rialtos, and tailors, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tailors 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 tailors produce 206 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.