Hidden inside cuttings sit cuttings and tungstic, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 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.
cuttings and tungstic tie for the highest Scrabble score from cuttings at 11 points. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in cuttings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cuttings 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 cuttings and tungstic, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling cuttings produces exactly one seven-letter word: cutting. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cuttings turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cunits, cutins, tincts, and tunics, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cuttings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sting, stung, stunt, suing, units, and using. For points, the strongest play is cuing — 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 cuttings produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cuts, guns, guts, nuts, sign, sing, and suit. For points, the strongest play is cigs — 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 cuttings turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cut, gun, gut, its, nut, sin, and sit. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cuttings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in cuttings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cuttings 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.
cuttings 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record thirteen senses for cuttings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
cuttings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cuttings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cuttings and tungstic, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cuttings 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 cuttings produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.