Hidden inside costings sit costings and gnostics, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
costings and gnostics tie for the highest Scrabble score from costings at 11 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in costings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and costings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are costings and gnostics, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in costings produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with costing and tossing. For points, the strongest plays are cosigns, 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 costings turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stings. For points, the strongest plays 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 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, costs, signs, sings, songs, 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 costings produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons, cost, into, sign, sing, and sins. 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 costings turns up 33 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 costings. 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 costings and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
costings is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
costings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing costings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are costings and gnostics, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from costings 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 costings produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.