Hidden inside trellis sit rillets, stiller, tillers and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rillets, stiller, tillers and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from trellis at 7 points. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in trellis: three come from rearranging its letters, and trellis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rillets, stiller, tillers, and trellis, 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 trellis turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are illest, listel, lister, liters, litres, relist, rilles, rillet, siller, tilers, tiller, and trills, 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trellis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with still, tells, tires, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are iller, islet, istle, liers, lilts, lisle, liter, lites, litre, relit, resit, riels, riles, rille, rills, rites, slier, stile, still, tells, tiers, tiler, tiles, tills, tires, tirls, tries, and trill — 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 trellis produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies, list, rest, rise, sell, and site. For points, the strongest plays are ells, erst, ills, ires, isle, leis, lest, lets, lier, lies, lilt, lire, list, lite, lits, reis, rest, rets, riel, rile, rill, rise, rite, sell, sill, silt, sire, site, slit, stir, tell, tels, tier, ties, tile, till, tils, tire, tirl, and tres — 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 trellis turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, its, let, lie, lit, set, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are ell, els, ers, est, ill, ire, its, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, rei, res, ret, sei, sel, ser, set, sir, sit, sri, tel, tes, tie, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trellis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and it. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, et, is, it, li, re, si, te, 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 trellis 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.
trellis 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 two senses for trellis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
trellis is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trellis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rillets, stiller, tillers, and trellis, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trellis 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 trellis produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.