telltales needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
telltales is the highest-scoring word from telltales, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in telltales — and it is telltales itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in telltales. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stellate and telltale, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling telltales turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with estate, latest, lattes, and settle. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including estate, latest and lattes.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in telltales. If a familiar word is all you need, start with latte, lease and least. For points, 34 words tie at 5 points, including latte, lease and least.
Rearranging the letters in telltales produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, east and eats. For points, 53 words tie at 4 points, including ease, east and eats.
Unscrambling telltales turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ate and eat. For points, 33 words tie at 3 points, including all, ate and eat.
Swap a single tile in telltales and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
telltales 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for telltales. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
telltales is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing telltales unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is telltales, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from telltales 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 telltales produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.