Hidden inside talliers sit literals and talliers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 347 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
literals and talliers tie for the highest Scrabble score from talliers at 8 points. The top 10 of 347 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in talliers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and talliers 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 literals and talliers, 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 talliers produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rallies and saltier. For points, the strongest plays are literal, rallies, realist, retails, rillets, sallier, saltier, saltire, slatier, stellar, stiller, tailers, tailles, tallier, tallies, tillers, and trellis — 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 talliers turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, serial, taller, trails, and trials. For points, the strongest plays are airest, alerts, allies, alters, ariels, artels, artsie, estral, illest, laster, listel, lister, liters, litres, ratels, relist, resail, retail, retial, rilles, rillet, sailer, sallet, salter, saltie, satire, serail, serial, siller, slater, staler, stelai, stelar, stella, striae, tailer, taille, talers, taller, tallis, telial, terais, tilers, tiller, trails, trials, and trills — 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 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in talliers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alter, laser, later, least, and liars. For points, the strongest plays are airts, aisle, alert, alist, alter, ariel, arils, arise, arles, artel, aster, astir, earls, ileal, iller, irate, islet, istle, lairs, lares, laris, laser, later, lears, least, liars, liers, lilts, liras, lisle, litas, liter, lites, litre, rails, raise, rales, ratel, rates, reais, reals, relit, resat, resit, retia, rials, riels, riles, rille, rills, rites, serai, seral, setal, sitar, slate, slier, stair, stale, stall, stare, steal, stela, stile, still, stria, taels, tails, taler, tales, talls, tares, tarsi, taser, teals, tears, telia, tells, terai, tesla, tiers, tiler, tiles, tills, tires, tirls, trail, trial, tries, and trill — 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 talliers produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and last. For points, the strongest plays are ails, airs, airt, aits, ales, alit, alls, alts, ares, arie, aril, arse, arts, ates, earl, ears, east, eats, ells, eras, erst, etas, ilea, ills, ires, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, last, late, lati, lats, leal, lear, leas, leis, lest, lets, liar, lias, lier, lies, lilt, lira, lire, list, lite, lits, rail, rais, rale, rase, rate, rats, real, reis, rest, rets, rial, rias, riel, rile, rill, rise, rite, sail, sale, sall, salt, sari, sate, sati, seal, sear, seat, sell, sera, seta, sial, sill, silt, sire, site, slat, slit, star, stir, tael, tail, tale, tali, tall, tare, tars, tase, teal, tear, teas, tela, tell, tels, tier, ties, tile, till, tils, tire, tirl, tres, 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 talliers turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, all, are, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ail, air, ais, ait, ale, all, als, alt, are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, ell, els, era, ers, est, eta, ill, ire, its, lar, las, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, rai, ras, rat, rei, res, ret, ria, sae, sal, sat, sea, sei, sel, ser, set, sir, sit, sri, tae, tar, tas, tea, tel, tes, tie, til, and tis — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in talliers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, is, it, la, li, re, si, ta, te, and ti — 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 talliers 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.
talliers 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
talliers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing talliers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are literals and talliers, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from talliers 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 talliers produce 347 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.