Hidden inside shitty sit shitty and stithy, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shitty and stithy tie for the highest Scrabble score from shitty at 12 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in shitty: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shitty 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 shitty and stithy, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in shitty plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shitty 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.
shitty 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 2-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 shitty. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
shitty is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shitty unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shitty and stithy, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shitty 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 shitty produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.