Hidden inside tellin sit lentil and lintel, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
TELLIN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LENTIL and LINTEL.
lentil and lintel tie for the highest Scrabble score from tellin at 6 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling tellin turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lentil and lintel, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tellin. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elint, inlet, and intel, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tellin produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, line, tell, and till. For points, 13 words tie at 4 points, including lent, line and tell.
Swap a single tile in tellin 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lentil and lintel, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tellin 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 tellin produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.