Hidden inside unlisted sit diluents, insulted, and unlisted, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 319 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diluents, insulted, and unlisted tie for the highest Scrabble score from unlisted at 9 points. The top 10 of 319 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in unlisted: two come from rearranging its letters, and unlisted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insulted. For points, the strongest plays are diluents, insulted, and unlisted — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unlisted produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dentils, diluent, dilutes and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unlisted turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duties, insult and listed. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including duties, listed and nudest.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unlisted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets and dines. For points, 44 words tie at 6 points, including delis, diets and dines.
Rearranging the letters in unlisted produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and diet. For points, 51 words tie at 5 points, including deli, dies and diet.
Unscrambling unlisted turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due and end. For points, 17 words tie at 4 points, including die, due and end.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unlisted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in unlisted plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in unlisted 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.
unlisted 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 3-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 unlisted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
unlisted is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unlisted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diluents, insulted, and unlisted, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unlisted 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 unlisted produce 319 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.