fastings needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fastings is the highest-scoring word from fastings, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in fastings — and it is fastings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fastings produces exactly one seven-letter word: fasting. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fastings turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assign, giants and saints. For points, the strongest plays are fagins and fating — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fastings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fists, gains and giant. For points, the strongest plays are fagin, fangs, and gifts — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fastings produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, fans and fast. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including gift, fags and fang.
Unscrambling fastings turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass and fan. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fastings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are fa and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in fastings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fastings 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.
fastings 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 fastings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
fastings is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fastings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fastings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fastings 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 fastings produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 16 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.