Hidden inside lightering sit lightering and relighting, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 218 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lightering and relighting tie for the highest Scrabble score from lightering at 15 points. The top 10 of 218 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in lightering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lightering 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 lightering and relighting, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lightering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lighting. For points, the strongest plays are girthing, lighting, and righting — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lightering produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lighten and lighter. For points, the strongest play is higgler — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lightering turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hiring, length, and tinier. For points, the strongest play is higgle — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lightering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, genii, light, night, right, their, and thine. For points, the strongest play is gighe — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lightering produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girl, hint, hire, lent, line, rent, and ring. For points, the strongest play is nigh — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lightering turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, get, gig, hen, her, hit, and leg. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lightering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
lightering 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.
lightering is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lightering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lightering and relighting, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lightering 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 lightering produce 218 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.