fingertip needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 162 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fingertip is the highest-scoring word from fingertip, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 162 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in fingertip — and it is fingertip itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fingertip produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is firepit, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fingertip turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finger, firing, and tinier. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including finger, firing and feting.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fingertip. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, genii and grief. For points, the strongest plays are feign, grief, and grift — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fingertip produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire and gift. For points, the strongest plays are frig and gift — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fingertip turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, get and net. For points, the strongest plays are fig and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fingertip. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in fingertip plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fingertip 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.
fingertip 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 fingertip. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
fingertip is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fingertip unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fingertip, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fingertip 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 fingertip produce 162 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.