Hidden inside littering sit littering and retitling, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
littering and retitling tie for the highest Scrabble score from littering at 10 points. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in littering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and littering 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 littering and retitling, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in littering. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glintier, retiling, and tinglier, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in littering produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glitter and letting. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including glitter, letting and gittern.
Unscrambling littering turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tinier. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including engirt, gentil and girlie.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in littering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, tiger, and title. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including genii, tiger and glint.
Rearranging the letters in littering produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girl, lent and line. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including girl, ring and gelt.
Unscrambling littering turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, leg and let. For points, 13 words tie at 4 points, including get, leg and rig.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in littering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in littering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in littering 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.
littering 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
littering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing littering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are littering and retitling, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from littering 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 littering produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.