Hidden inside resorting sit resorting, restoring, and rostering, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 437 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resorting, restoring, and rostering tie for the highest Scrabble score from resorting at 10 points. The top 10 of 437 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in resorting: two come from rearranging its letters, and resorting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with restoring. For points, the strongest plays are resorting, restoring, and rostering — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resorting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stronger. For points, the strongest plays are genitors, ignorers, restring, ringster, stringer, and stronger — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in resorting produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignores, regions, resting, and sorting. For points, the strongest plays are eringos, genitor, goiters, goitres, goriest, gorsier, grister, ignorer, ignores, regions, resting, ringers, signore, sorting, stinger, storing, tongers, and trigons — 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 resorting turns up 88 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, ignore, orgies, region, senior, singer, and string. For points, the strongest plays are egoist, engirt, ergots, eringo, erring, genros, girons, goiter, goitre, goners, gorier, griots, grison, groins, ignore, ingest, ingots, orgies, region, reigns, renigs, reorgs, rerigs, resign, rigors, ringer, rogers, rosing, sering, signer, signet, signor, singer, soigne, soring, stinge, stingo, stogie, string, strong, tigers, tigons, tinges, toeing, tonger, trigon, and trigos — 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 112 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resorting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, irons, noise, notes, rents, rings, and riots. For points, the strongest plays are ergot, genro, gents, girns, giron, giros, girts, gites, goers, goest, goner, gores, gorse, grins, griot, grist, grits, groin, grots, ingot, ogres, reign, renig, reorg, rerig, rigor, rings, roger, segni, segno, sengi, singe, sting, tiger, tigon, tinge, tings, tongs, trigo, trigs, and trogs — 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 resorting produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, gets, goes, gone, into, iron, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are egis, egos, engs, ergo, ergs, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, girn, giro, girt, gist, gite, gits, goer, goes, gone, gore, grin, grit, grot, negs, nogs, ogre, orgs, regs, rigs, ring, sego, sign, sing, snog, song, tegs, ting, togs, tong, trig, and trog — 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 resorting turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get, got, its, net, nor, and not. For points, the strongest plays are ego, eng, erg, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, gor, gos, got, grr, neg, nog, org, reg, rig, seg, sig, teg, and tog — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resorting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, it, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in resorting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in resorting and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
resorting 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
resorting is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing resorting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resorting, restoring, and rostering, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from resorting 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 resorting produce 437 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 88 six-letter words, 112 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.