Hidden inside gesturing sit gesturing and grungiest, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 355 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gesturing and grungiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from gesturing at 11 points. The top 10 of 355 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in gesturing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gesturing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gesturing and grungiest, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gesturing. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are guesting and gungiest, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gesturing produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resting. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including gingers, grunges and gungier.
Unscrambling gesturing turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genius, singer and string. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including gigues, ginger and grunge.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gesturing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guest, nurse and rents. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including gigue, grigs and gunge.
Rearranging the letters in gesturing produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eggs, gets and gigs. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including eggs, gigs and grig.
Unscrambling gesturing turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, get and gig. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gesturing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in gesturing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gesturing 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.
gesturing 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
gesturing is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gesturing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gesturing and grungiest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gesturing 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 gesturing produce 355 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.