ghosting needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ghosting is the highest-scoring word from ghosting, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ghosting — and it is ghosting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ghosting produces exactly one seven-letter word: hosting. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ghosting turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nights and things. For points, the strongest plays are hosing, nights, things, and thongs — 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghosting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ghost, going, hints, night, sight, sting, and thing. For points, the strongest play is hoggs — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ghosting produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gigs, gosh, hint, hits, hogs, host, and into. For points, the strongest play is hogg — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ghosting turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig, got, his, hit, hog, hot, and its. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hog — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghosting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, hi, ho, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in ghosting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ghosting 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.
ghosting 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ghosting is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ghosting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ghosting, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ghosting 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 ghosting produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.