Hidden inside listeria sit lairiest and listeria, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 304 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lairiest and listeria tie for the highest Scrabble score from listeria at 8 points. The top 10 of 304 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in listeria: one comes from rearranging its letters, and listeria itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lairiest and listeria, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in listeria produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saltier. For points, the strongest plays are airiest, laities, liatris, realist, retails, saltier, saltire, siltier, slatier, and tailers — 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 listeria turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, serial, trails, and trials. For points, the strongest plays are airest, alerts, alters, ariels, artels, artsie, estral, laster, liaise, lister, liters, litres, ratels, relist, resail, retail, retial, sailer, salter, saltie, satire, serail, serial, slater, staler, stelai, stelar, striae, tailer, talers, terais, tilers, trails, and trials — 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 79 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in listeria. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alert, alter, laser, later, least, and liars. For points, the strongest plays are airts, aisle, alert, alist, alter, ariel, arils, arise, arles, artel, aster, astir, earls, irate, islet, istle, lairs, lares, laris, laser, later, lears, least, liars, liers, liras, litai, litas, liter, lites, litre, rails, raise, rales, ratel, rates, reais, reals, relit, resat, resit, retia, rials, riels, riles, rites, serai, seral, setal, sitar, slate, slier, stair, stale, stare, steal, stela, stile, stria, taels, tails, taler, tales, tares, tarsi, taser, teals, tears, telia, terai, tesla, tiers, tiler, tiles, tires, tirls, trail, trial, 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 listeria produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, ears, east, eats, eras, and last. For points, the strongest plays are ails, airs, airt, aits, ales, alit, alts, ares, arie, aril, arse, arts, ates, earl, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, ilea, ilia, ires, iris, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, last, late, lati, lats, lear, leas, leis, lest, lets, liar, lias, lier, lies, lira, lire, liri, list, lite, lits, rail, rais, rale, rase, rate, rats, real, reis, rest, rets, rial, rias, riel, rile, rise, rite, sail, sale, salt, sari, sate, sati, seal, sear, seat, sera, seta, sial, silt, sire, site, slat, slit, star, stir, tael, tail, tale, tali, tare, tars, tase, teal, tear, teas, tela, tels, tier, ties, tile, tils, tire, tirl, tres, and tsar — 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 listeria turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ail, air, ais, ait, ale, als, alt, are, ars, art, ate, ats, ear, eat, els, era, ers, est, eta, ire, its, lar, las, lat, lea, lei, let, lie, lis, lit, rai, ras, rat, rei, res, ret, ria, sae, sal, sat, sea, sei, sel, ser, set, sir, sit, sri, tae, tar, tas, tea, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in listeria. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, ar, as, at, el, er, es, et, is, it, la, li, re, si, ta, 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 listeria 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.
listeria 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 one sense for listeria. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
listeria is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing listeria unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lairiest and listeria, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from listeria 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 listeria produce 304 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 79 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.