97 words come out when you unscramble OLIGISTS, starting with OLIGISTS itself: 9 in Scrabble, 11 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are GLIOSIS and OLIGIST, 8 points each. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
O1L12I1G23I1S1T1S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from OLIGISTS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 4 with 6, 14 with 5, 35 with 4, 27 with 3 and 14 with 2.
13 of 35 4-letter words you get when you unscramble OLIGISTS tie at 5 points; none scores more. LIST, LOSS and LOST will look familiar.
Trade one tile of OLIGISTS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with OL · ending in TS · all 8-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; GLIOSIS (8 points) takes the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
OLIGISTS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLIGISTS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 97) | 75 | 97 | 68 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
22 of the 97 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: OLIGISTS, OLIGIST, GLITS, GIOS, GLIT, GOSS, LIGS, SOGS, TIGS, GIO, ISIT, ISOS and 10 more. 7 of the 97 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: GLIOSIS, SIGS, GIS, GOS, SIG, GI and OI.
Each word below uses all the letters of OLIGISTS and one more.