Hidden inside gootlin sit looting and tooling, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
GOOTLIN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LOOTING and TOOLING.
looting and tooling tie for the highest Scrabble score from gootlin at 8 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in gootlin 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 looting and tooling, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gootlin. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glint, igloo, ingot and 5 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gootlin produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, lion and long. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including long, gilt and goon.
Unscrambling gootlin turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goo, got and lit. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including goo, got and log.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gootlin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and it. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in gootlin plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gootlin and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are looting and tooling, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gootlin 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 gootlin produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.