Hidden inside glossing sit glossing and goslings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
glossing and goslings tie for the highest Scrabble score from glossing at 10 points. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in glossing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and glossing 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 glossing and goslings, each 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 glossing 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 word is gosling, 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 glossing turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing. For points, the strongest plays are goings and ogling — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glossing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with going, lions, signs, sings, and songs. For points, the strongest plays are going, gongs, and noggs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in glossing produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gigs, lion, logs, long, loss, oils, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are gigs, gong, iggs, and nogg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling glossing turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig, log, oil, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are gig and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in glossing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 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 glossing 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.
glossing 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.
glossing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing glossing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are glossing and goslings, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from glossing 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 glossing produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.