Hidden inside igst sit gist and gits, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ISTG, SGIT or GTSI and you get the same 4 letters as IGST: so the words from IGST listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
IGST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GIST and GITS.
gist and gits tie for the highest Scrabble score from igst at 5 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in igst produces 2 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gist and gits, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in igst and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gist and gits, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from igst 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 igst produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.