Hidden inside ingesting sit ingesting and signeting, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ingesting and signeting tie for the highest Scrabble score from ingesting at 11 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ingesting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ingesting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ingesting and signeting, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ingesting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stinging. For points, the strongest plays are singeing, stinging, and tingeing — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ingesting produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with signing and singing. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including signing, singing and ginseng.
Unscrambling ingesting turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tennis. For points, the strongest play is gieing — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ingesting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, nines, and sting. For points, the strongest play is teggs — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ingesting produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eggs, gets and gigs. For points, the strongest plays are eggs, gigs, iggs, and tegg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ingesting turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, get and gig. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ingesting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in ingesting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ingesting and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ingesting 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.
ingesting is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ingesting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ingesting and signeting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ingesting 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 ingesting produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.