Hidden inside lutings sit lusting and lutings, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lusting and lutings tie for the highest Scrabble score from lutings at 8 points. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lutings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lutings 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 lusting and lutings, 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 lutings turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guilts and insult. For points, the strongest plays are glints, guilts, lungis, luting, and sluing — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lutings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guilt, lungs, sting, stung, suing, units, and until. For points, the strongest plays are gilts, glint, gluts, guilt, iglus, lings, lungi, lungs, sling, slung, sting, stung, suing, tings, tungs, and using — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lutings produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, guts, list, lung, nuts, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are gilt, gins, gist, gits, glut, gnus, guls, guns, gust, guts, iglu, ling, lugs, lung, nugs, sign, sing, slug, snug, sung, ting, tugs, and tung — 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 lutings turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, gut, its, lit, nut, sin, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are gin, gis, git, gnu, gul, gun, gut, lug, nug, sig, and tug — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lutings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. 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 lutings 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.
lutings 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 lutings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
lutings is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lutings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lusting and lutings, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lutings 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 lutings produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.