ghostings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 179 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ghostings is the highest-scoring word from ghostings, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 179 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ghostings — and it is ghostings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ghostings produces exactly one eight-letter word: ghosting. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ghostings produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hosting and tossing. For points, the strongest play is hosting — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ghostings turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ghosts, nights, sights, stings, and things. For points, the strongest plays are ghosts, hosing, nights, shogis, sights, 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 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghostings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ghost, going, hints, hosts, night, shots, and sight. 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 ghostings produces 59 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 ghostings turns up 40 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 ghostings. 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.
Swap a single tile in ghostings 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.
ghostings 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.
ghostings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ghostings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ghostings, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ghostings 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 ghostings produce 179 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.