Hidden inside tissues sit situses and tissues, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
situses and tissues tie for the highest Scrabble score from tissues at 7 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tissues: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tissues itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tissues. For points, the strongest plays are situses and tissues — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tissues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with issue, sites, suite, and suits. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including issue, sites and suite.
Rearranging the letters in tissues produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sets, site and sits. For points, 14 words tie at 4 points, including sets, site and sits.
Unscrambling tissues turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, set and sit. For points, 16 words tie at 3 points, including its, set and sit.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tissues plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tissues and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
tissues 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for tissues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
tissues is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tissues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are situses and tissues, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tissues 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 tissues produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.