Hidden inside fingist sit fisting and sifting, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
FINGIST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to FISTING and SIFTING.
fisting and sifting tie for the highest Scrabble score from fingist at 11 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in fingist produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fisting and sifting, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fingist produces exactly one six-letter word: siting. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fingist produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fist, fits and gift. For points, the strongest plays are figs, gifs, and gift — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fingist turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, its and sin. For points, the strongest plays are fig and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in fingist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fingist 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fisting and sifting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fingist 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 fingist produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.