Hidden inside knitter sit knitter and trinket, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
knitter and trinket tie for the highest Scrabble score from knitter at 11 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in knitter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and knitter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are knitter and trinket, 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 knitter turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kitten. For points, the strongest plays are kitten, reknit, and tinker — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knitter. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inker, kiter, reink, and trike, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in knitter produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kite, knit, rent, tent, and tire. For points, the strongest plays are keir, kent, kern, kier, kine, kirn, kite, knit, rink, tike, and trek — each 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 knitter turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, kit, net, ten, tie, tin, and tit. For points, the strongest plays are ink, irk, ken, kin, kir, and kit — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knitter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 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 knitter 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.
knitter 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 knitter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
knitter is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing knitter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are knitter and trinket, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from knitter 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 knitter produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.