Hidden inside tills sit lilts, still, and tills, 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.
lilts, still, and tills tie for the highest Scrabble score from tills at 5 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in tills: two come from rearranging its letters, and tills itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with still. For points, the strongest plays are lilts, still, and tills — 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 tills produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with list and till. For points, the strongest plays are ills, lilt, list, lits, sill, silt, slit, till, and tils — 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 tills turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, its, lit, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are ill, its, lis, lit, sit, til, and tis — 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 tills. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are is, it, li, si, and ti — 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 tills 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.
tills 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 four senses for tills. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
tills is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tills unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lilts, still, and tills, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tills 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 tills produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.