Hidden inside lilting sit lilting and tilling, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lilting and tilling tie for the highest Scrabble score from lilting at 8 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lilting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lilting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lilting and tilling, each 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 lilting produces exactly one six-letter word: tiling. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lilting produces exactly one five-letter word: glint. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lilting produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with till. For points, the strongest plays are gill, gilt, ling, and ting — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lilting turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, lit, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are gin and git — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lilting. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in lilting 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.
lilting 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 4-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 lilting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lilting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lilting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lilting and tilling, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lilting 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 lilting produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 9 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.