Hidden inside erecting sit erecting and gentrice, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
erecting and gentrice tie for the highest Scrabble score from erecting at 11 points. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in erecting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and erecting 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 erecting and gentrice, 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 erecting produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genetic. For points, the strongest plays are generic and genetic — 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 erecting turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, entire, and recent. For points, the strongest plays are cering and cringe — 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in erecting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, green, greet, nicer, niece, and tiger. For points, the strongest play is genic — 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 erecting produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, gene, nice, rent, rice, ring, and teen. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cere, cert, cete, cine, cire, cite, crit, etic, nice, and rice — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling erecting turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, ice, net, rig, ten, and tie. 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 erecting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in 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.
Swap a single tile in erecting 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.
erecting 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 erecting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
erecting is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing erecting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are erecting and gentrice, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from erecting 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 erecting produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.