Hidden inside lettering sit lettering and reletting, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 206 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lettering and reletting tie for the highest Scrabble score from lettering at 10 points. The top 10 of 206 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in lettering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lettering 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 lettering and reletting, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lettering. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are greenlit and ringette, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lettering produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitle, gentler, glitter, and letting. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including gentler, glitter and letting.
Unscrambling lettering turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entire, gentle, and letter. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including gentle, eeling and elegit.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lettering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, green and greet. For points, 19 words tie at 6 points, including green, greet and tiger.
Rearranging the letters in lettering produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, girl and lent. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including gene, girl and ring.
Unscrambling lettering turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get and leg. For points, 14 words tie at 4 points, including gee, get and leg.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lettering. 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 lettering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lettering 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.
lettering 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 one sense for lettering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
lettering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lettering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lettering and reletting, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lettering 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 lettering produce 206 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, 33 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.