alighting needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alighting is the highest-scoring word from alighting, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in alighting — and it is alighting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alighting. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: lighting, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alighting produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hailing. For points, the strongest plays are hailing, halting, hilting, lathing, and nilghai — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alighting turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hating. For points, the strongest plays are alight, haling, and hating — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alighting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, giant, light, night, and thing. For points, the strongest plays are ahing, laigh, light, night, thang, and thing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alighting produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gang, hail, hang, hint, nail, and tail. For points, the strongest plays are ghat, hang, and nigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alighting turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, gag, gal, gig, hat, hit, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alighting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, at, ha, hi, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, and hi — each worth 5 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 alighting and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
alighting 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
alighting is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alighting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is alighting, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alighting 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 alighting produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.