Hidden inside talisman sit staminal and talisman, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
staminal and talisman tie for the highest Scrabble score from talisman at 10 points. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in talisman: one comes from rearranging its letters, and talisman itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are staminal and talisman, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in talisman produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animals. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including animals, laminas and manilas.
Unscrambling talisman turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animal. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including animal, animas and atmans.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in talisman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mails, mints and nails. For points, 30 words tie at 7 points, including mails, mints and almas.
Rearranging the letters in talisman produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, ants and last. For points, 33 words tie at 6 points, including aims, mail and main.
Unscrambling talisman turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and its. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including aim, man and ama.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in talisman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
8 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in talisman plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in talisman and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
talisman 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 3-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 talisman. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
talisman is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing talisman unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are staminal and talisman, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from talisman 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 talisman produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.