toils needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 5 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
toils is the highest-scoring word from toils, worth 5 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in toils — and it is toils itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in toils produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with list, lost, lots, oils, slot, and soli. For points, the strongest plays are list, lits, lost, loti, lots, oils, silo, silt, slit, slot, soil, soli, tils, and toil — 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 toils turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, lit, lot, oil, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are its, lis, lit, lot, oil, sit, sol, sot, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in toils. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are is, it, li, lo, oi, os, si, so, ti, and to — 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 toils 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.
toils 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.
toils is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing toils unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is toils, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and no other word from toils 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 toils produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 14 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.