Hidden inside postings sit postings, signpost, and stopings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postings, signpost, and stopings tie for the highest Scrabble score from postings at 11 points. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in postings: two come from rearranging its letters, and postings 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 postings, signpost, and stopings, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in postings produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posting and tossing. For points, the strongest plays are posting, spigots, and stoping — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling postings turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gossip, points, posing, and stings. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including gossip, posing and gipons.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point, posts and signs. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including gipon, oping and pingo.
Rearranging the letters in postings produces 52 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 postings turns up 41 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 postings. 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 postings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in postings 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.
postings 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 postings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
postings is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are postings, signpost, and stopings, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from postings 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 postings produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.