transits needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 160 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
transits is the highest-scoring word from transits, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 160 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in transits — and it is transits itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in transits produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artists. For points, the strongest plays are artists, instars, santirs, statins, strains, straits, tanists, transit, and tsarist — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling transits turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, saints, stains, stairs, starts, and trains. For points, the strongest plays are artist, instar, saints, santir, sarins, satins, sistra, sitars, stains, stairs, starts, statin, stints, strain, strait, strati, taints, tanist, titans, trains, and traits — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rains, saint, stain, stair, stars, start, and stats. For points, the strongest plays are airns, airts, antis, arsis, astir, naris, rains, ranis, rants, riant, sains, saint, sarin, saris, sasin, satin, satis, sitar, snits, stain, stair, stans, stars, start, stats, stint, stirs, stria, tains, taint, tarns, tarsi, tarts, tians, tints, titan, train, trait, trans, trass, and tsars — 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 transits produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, arts, rain, rats, sins, and sirs. For points, the strongest plays are ains, airn, airs, airt, aits, anis, anti, ants, arts, nits, rain, rais, rani, rant, rats, rias, rins, sain, sans, sari, sati, sins, sirs, sits, snit, sris, stan, star, stat, stir, tain, tans, tarn, tars, tart, tass, tats, tian, tins, tint, tits, and tsar — 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 transits turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, art, ass, its, ran, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are ain, air, ais, ait, ani, ant, ars, art, ass, ats, att, ins, its, nit, rai, ran, ras, rat, ria, rin, san, sat, sin, sir, sis, sit, sri, tan, tar, tas, tat, tin, tis, and tit — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ai, an, ar, as, at, in, is, it, na, si, ta, 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 transits and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
transits 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 seven senses for transits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
transits is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing transits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is transits, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from transits 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 transits produce 160 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.