Hidden inside fingertips sit fingertips and presifting, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 457 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fingertips and presifting tie for the highest Scrabble score from fingertips at 16 points. The top 10 of 457 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in fingertips: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fingertips itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fingertips and presifting, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fingertips turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is fingertip, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fingertips. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are firepits and spitfire, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fingertips produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fingers, inspire, and resting. For points, the strongest plays are firepit and presift — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fingertips turns up 81 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finest, finger, firing, griefs, pities, priest, and prints. For points, the strongest plays are feigns, feting, finger, firing, friges, fringe, griefs, grifts, and regift — 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 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fingertips. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, fires, first, fries, genii, gifts, and grief. For points, the strongest plays are feign, frigs, gifts, grief, and grift — 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 fingertips produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire, fist, fits, gets, gift, and grip. For points, the strongest plays are figs, frig, 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 fingertips turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, get, its, net, pen, per, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fingertips. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, 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.
fingertips 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 fingertips. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
fingertips is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fingertips unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fingertips and presifting, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fingertips 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 fingertips produce 457 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 81 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.