Hidden inside lister sit lister, liters, litres and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lister, liters, litres and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from lister at 6 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in lister: four come from rearranging its letters, and lister itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lister, liters, litres, relist, and tilers, 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lister. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tires and tries. For points, the strongest plays are islet, istle, liers, liter, lites, litre, relit, resit, riels, riles, rites, slier, stile, tiers, tiler, tiles, tires, tirls, and tries — 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 lister produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lets, lies, list, rest, rise, site, and stir. For points, the strongest plays are erst, ires, isle, leis, lest, lets, lier, lies, lire, list, lite, lits, reis, rest, rets, riel, rile, rise, rite, silt, sire, site, slit, stir, tels, tier, ties, tile, 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 lister turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, let, lie, lit, set, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are els, ers, est, 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 lister. 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.
44 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in lister plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lister 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.
lister 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 three senses for lister. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
lister is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lister unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lister, liters, litres, relist, and tilers, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lister 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 lister produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.