Hidden inside talls sit stall and talls, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stall and talls tie for the highest Scrabble score from talls at 5 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in talls: one comes from rearranging its letters, and talls itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stall. For points, the strongest plays are stall and talls — 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 talls produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with last, salt, and tall. For points, the strongest plays are alls, alts, last, lats, sall, salt, slat, and tall — 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 talls turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all and sat. For points, the strongest plays are all, als, alt, ats, las, lat, sal, sat, and tas — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in talls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest plays are al, as, at, la, and ta — 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 talls and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
talls 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 five senses for talls. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
talls is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing talls unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stall and talls, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from talls 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 talls produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.