Hidden inside posting sit posting and stoping, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 134 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
posting and stoping tie for the highest Scrabble score from posting at 10 points. The top 10 of 134 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in posting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and posting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posting. For points, the strongest plays are posting and stoping — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling posting turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with points and posing. For points, the strongest plays are gipons, opting, pingos, posing, spigot, and toping — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point and sting. For points, the strongest plays are gipon, oping, pingo, pings, and pongs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in posting produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, pigs, pins, pits, post, pots, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are gips, pigs, ping, and pong — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling posting turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, its, not, pig, pin, pit, and pot. For points, the strongest plays are gip and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in posting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, it, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — each worth 4 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 posting 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.
posting 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for posting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
posting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing posting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are posting and stoping, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from posting 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 posting produce 134 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.