Hidden inside talons sit santol, stanol, talons and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
santol, stanol, talons and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from talons at 6 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in talons: three come from rearranging its letters, and talons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are santol, stanol, talons, and tolans, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in talons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loans. For points, the strongest plays are altos, loans, lotas, lotsa, notal, salon, santo, slant, solan, talon, tolan, tolas, and tonal — 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 talons produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ants, last, loan, lost, lots, and salt. For points, the strongest plays are also, alto, alts, ants, last, lats, loan, lost, lota, lots, naos, nota, oast, oats, salt, slat, slot, snot, sola, stan, stoa, tans, taos, tola, tons, and tosa — 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 talons turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, lot, not, sat, son, tan, and ton. For points, the strongest plays are als, alt, ant, ats, las, lat, lot, nos, not, oat, ons, sal, san, sat, sol, son, sot, tan, tao, tas, and ton — 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 talons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are al, an, as, at, la, lo, na, no, on, os, so, ta, 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 talons and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
talons 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for talons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
talons is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing talons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are santol, stanol, talons, and tolans, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from talons 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 talons produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.