Hidden inside guessing sit guessing and snuggies, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
guessing and snuggies tie for the highest Scrabble score from guessing at 10 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in guessing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and guessing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guessing. For points, the strongest plays are guessing and snuggies — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling guessing turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genius. For points, the strongest plays are gigues and gunges — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guessing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guess, issue and signs. For points, the strongest plays are gigue and gunge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in guessing produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eggs, gigs and guns. For points, the strongest plays are eggs, gigs, and iggs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling guessing turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, gig and gun. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guessing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and us. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in guessing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in guessing 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.
guessing 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for guessing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
guessing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing guessing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are guessing and snuggies, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from guessing 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 guessing produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.