Hidden inside fistings sit fistings and siftings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fistings and siftings tie for the highest Scrabble score from fistings at 12 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in fistings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fistings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fistings and siftings, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fistings 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.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fistings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fists, gifts and signs. For points, the strongest play is gifts — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fistings produces 21 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 fistings turns up 17 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in fistings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fistings 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.
fistings is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
fistings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fistings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fistings and siftings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fistings 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 fistings produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.