Hidden inside hitting sit hitting and tithing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hitting and tithing tie for the highest Scrabble score from hitting at 11 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in hitting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hitting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hitting. For points, the strongest plays are hitting and tithing — each 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 hitting produces exactly one six-letter word: gittin. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hitting. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: night, thing, and tight, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hitting produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hint and thin. For points, the strongest play is nigh — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hitting turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hit, tin, and tit. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hitting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, in, and it. For points, the strongest play is hi — 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 hitting 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.
hitting 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 1-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 hitting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
hitting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hitting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hitting and tithing, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hitting 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 hitting produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.