Hidden inside tellis sit illest and listel, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
TELLIS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ILLEST and LISTEL.
illest and listel tie for the highest Scrabble score from tellis at 6 points. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling tellis 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 illest and listel, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tellis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with still and tells. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including still, tells and islet.
Rearranging the letters in tellis produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies and list. For points, 22 words tie at 4 points, including lets, lies and list.
Unscrambling tellis turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, its and let. For points, 19 words tie at 3 points, including ill, its and let.
20 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in tellis plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tellis 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 illest and listel, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tellis 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 tellis produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.