Hidden inside enlisting sit enlisting, listening, and tinseling, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 228 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enlisting, listening, and tinseling tie for the highest Scrabble score from enlisting at 10 points. The top 10 of 228 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in enlisting: two come from rearranging its letters, and enlisting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listening. For points, the strongest plays are enlisting, listening, and tinseling — 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 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enlisting. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enisling, ensiling, ginniest, leniting, lignites, lingiest, and nestling, 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 enlisting produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listing. For points, the strongest plays are glisten, ignites, insigne, lensing, lignins, lignite, linings, linting, listing, nesting, seining, silting, singlet, sniglet, tensing, tilings, and tingles — 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 enlisting turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lining, listen, silent, single, and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are ensign, gentil, glints, ignite, ingest, ingles, isling, legist, legits, lignin, lining, signet, single, siting, stinge, tieing, tiling, tinges, tingle, and tining — 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 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in enlisting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, lines, nines, and sting. For points, the strongest plays are gelts, genii, gents, gilts, gites, glens, glint, ingle, legit, lings, segni, sengi, sigil, singe, sling, sting, tinge, and tings — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in enlisting produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, legs, lent, lets, lies, line, and list. For points, the strongest plays are egis, engs, gels, gelt, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gilt, gins, gist, gite, gits, glen, legs, ling, negs, sign, sing, tegs, and ting — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling enlisting turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, its, leg, let, lie, lit, and net. For points, the strongest plays are eng, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, leg, neg, seg, sig, and teg — each worth 4 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 enlisting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in enlisting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in enlisting 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.
enlisting 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 one sense for enlisting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
enlisting is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing enlisting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are enlisting, listening, and tinseling, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from enlisting 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 enlisting produce 228 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.