Hidden inside letterings sit letterings and resettling, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 585 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
letterings and resettling tie for the highest Scrabble score from letterings at 11 points. The top 10 of 585 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in letterings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and letterings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are letterings and resettling, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling letterings turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lettering, reletting, resetting and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in letterings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitles, gentlest and glitters. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including gentlest, glitters and settling.
Rearranging the letters in letterings produces 71 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entitle, entries and gentler. For points, 35 words tie at 8 points, including gentler, glitter and letting.
Unscrambling letterings turns up 128 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire and gentle. For points, 46 words tie at 7 points, including gentle, greets and seeing.
There are 145 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in letterings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, genes and girls. For points, 50 words tie at 6 points, including genes, girls and green.
Rearranging the letters in letterings produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, gene and gets. For points, 38 words tie at 5 points, including gene, gets and girl.
Unscrambling letterings turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get and its. For points, 17 words tie at 4 points, including gee, get and leg.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in letterings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in letterings plus one additional letter.
letterings 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 letterings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
letterings is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing letterings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are letterings and resettling, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from letterings 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 letterings produce 585 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 32 eight-letter words, 71 seven-letter words, 128 six-letter words, 145 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.