fasting needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fasting is the highest-scoring word from fasting, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in fasting — and it is fasting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fasting turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants. For points, the strongest plays are fagins and fating — 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fasting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, gifts, saint, stain, and sting. For points, the strongest plays are fagin, fangs, and gifts — 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 fasting produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, fans, fast, fist, fits, gain, and gift. For points, the strongest plays are fags, fang, figs, gifs, and gift — 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 fasting turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, fan, fat, fit, gas, its, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, and gif — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fasting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, if, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are fa and if — each worth 5 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 fasting 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.
fasting 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 2-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 fasting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
fasting is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fasting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fasting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fasting 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 fasting produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.