Hidden inside split sit slipt, spilt, and split, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
slipt, spilt, and split tie for the highest Scrabble score from split at 7 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in split: two come from rearranging its letters, and split itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spilt and split. For points, the strongest plays are slipt, spilt, and split — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in split produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lips, list and pits. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including lips, pits and slip.
Swap a single tile in split 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.
split 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 eighteen senses for split. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
split is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing split unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are slipt, spilt, and split, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from split 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 split produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.