Hidden inside reknitting sit reknitting and trinketing, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reknitting and trinketing tie for the highest Scrabble score from reknitting at 15 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in reknitting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reknitting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reknitting and trinketing, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reknitting turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kittening and tinkering, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reknitting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with knitting. For points, the strongest plays are knitting and reinking — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reknitting produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with renting. For points, the strongest plays are kerning, kirning, and kitting — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reknitting turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intern, kitten, and tinier. For points, the strongest plays are inking, irking, and kiting — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reknitting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, inner, and tiger. For points, the strongest play is eking — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reknitting produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with king, kite and knit. For points, the strongest plays are gink and king — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reknitting turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, ink and kit. For points, the strongest play is keg — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reknitting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
reknitting 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.
reknitting is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reknitting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reknitting and trinketing, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reknitting 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 reknitting produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.