twists needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
twists is the highest-scoring word from twists, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in twists — and it is twists itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in twists produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sits and tits. For points, the strongest plays are twit, wiss, wist, and wits — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in twists and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
twists 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in twists carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record twenty-three senses for twists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
twists is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing twists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is twists, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from twists 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 twists produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.