How many words start with TEL?

10, from 5 letters up to 5. All of them are on this page.

What is the highest scoring word that start with TEL?

TELEX at 12 points in Scrabble, and TELEX at 13 in Words With Friends, because the two games score the tiles differently.

TELAE, TELCO, TELES, TELEX, TELIA, TELIC, TELLS, TELLY, TELOI, TELOS.

10 of them: TELAE, TELCO, TELES, TELEX, TELIA, TELIC, TELLS, TELLY, TELOI, TELOS.

There are 10 of them. The highest scoring is TELEX at 12 points in Scrabble, and the set averages 6.4.

Most common words first, then the rest A to Z.

The most familiar words on this page and what they mean. Tap any word for its full entry, score and anagrams.

TELLS verb form of TELL: express in words
TELCO noun a public utility that provides telephone service
TELEX noun a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter
TELLY noun an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

All of them: Word lists.