knitting needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
knitting is the highest-scoring word from knitting, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in knitting — and it is knitting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in knitting produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is kitting, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling knitting turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inking and kiting, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling knitting produces exactly one five-letter word: kinin. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in knitting produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with king and knit. For points, the strongest plays are gink and king — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling knitting turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, kit, tin, and tit. For points, the strongest plays are ink, kin, and kit — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in knitting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in knitting 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.
knitting 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for knitting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
knitting is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing knitting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is knitting, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from knitting 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 knitting produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.