knittings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
knittings is the highest-scoring word from knittings, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in knittings — and it is knittings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knittings. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: knitting and stinking, worth 13 points apiece in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in knittings produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sinking and sitting. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including sinking, inkings and kitings.
Unscrambling knittings turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with skiing. For points, the strongest plays are inking, kiting, skiing, and tsking — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knittings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kings, knits, sting, and stink. For points, the strongest plays are ginks and kings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in knittings produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, king and kits. For points, the strongest plays are gink and king — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling knittings turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, its and kit. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including ink, kit and ski.
Swap a single tile in knittings 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.
knittings 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 knittings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
knittings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing knittings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is knittings, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from knittings 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 knittings produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.