Hidden inside costing sit costing and gnostic, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
costing and gnostic tie for the highest Scrabble score from costing at 10 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in costing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and costing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with costing. For points, the strongest plays are costing and gnostic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling costing turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coigns, cosign, coting, and incogs, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins and sting. For points, the strongest plays are coign and incog — 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 costing produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons, cost, into, sign, sing, and song. For points, the strongest plays are cigs and cogs — 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 costing turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, got, its, not, sin, sit, and son. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, it, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 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 costing and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
costing 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for costing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
costing is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing costing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are costing and gnostic, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from costing 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 costing produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.