Hidden inside lifting sit fliting and lifting, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fliting and lifting tie for the highest Scrabble score from lifting at 11 points. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lifting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lifting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lifting. For points, the strongest plays are fliting and lifting — 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 lifting turns up 2 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: filing, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lifting. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is fling, 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 lifting produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gift and lift. For points, the strongest play is gift — 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 lifting turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, lit, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are fig and gif — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lifting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, and it. For points, the strongest play is if — worth 5 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 lifting and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
lifting 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.
lifting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lifting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fliting and lifting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lifting 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 lifting produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.