Hidden inside knitters sit knitters and trinkets, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
knitters and trinkets tie for the highest Scrabble score from knitters at 12 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in knitters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and knitters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are knitters and trinkets, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in knitters produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kittens. For points, the strongest plays are kittens, knitter, reknits, skitter, stinker, tinkers, 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 knitters turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kitten, sitter, and strike. For points, the strongest plays are inkers, kiters, kitten, reinks, reknit, reskin, sinker, strike, tinker, and trikes — 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 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knitters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kites, knits, rents, risen, siren, skirt, and stink. For points, the strongest plays are inker, keirs, kerns, kiers, kines, kirns, kiter, kites, knits, reink, rinks, siker, skein, skier, skint, skirt, skite, stink, stirk, tikes, treks, 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 knitters produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, kite, kits, knit, nest, nets, and rent. For points, the strongest plays are inks, irks, keir, kens, kent, kern, kier, kine, kins, kirn, kirs, kist, kite, kits, knit, kris, rink, risk, sike, sink, skin, skit, 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 knitters turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, its, kit, net, set, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are ink, irk, ken, kin, kir, kis, kit, ski, and tsk — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knitters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, 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 knitters and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
knitters 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 knitters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
knitters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing knitters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are knitters and trinkets, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from knitters 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 knitters produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.