Hidden inside positing sit positing and sopiting, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
positing and sopiting tie for the highest Scrabble score from positing at 11 points. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in positing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and positing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are positing and sopiting, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in positing produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posting. For points, the strongest plays are poising, posting, spiting, and stoping — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling positing turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with points and posing. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including posing, gipons and opting.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in positing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point and sting. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including gipon, oping and piing.
Rearranging the letters in positing produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, pigs and pins. For points, the strongest plays are gips, pigs, ping, and pong — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling positing turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, its and not. For points, the strongest plays are gip and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in positing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in positing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in positing and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
positing 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.
positing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing positing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are positing and sopiting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from positing 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 positing produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.