Hidden inside restarting sit registrant and restarting, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 738 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
registrant and restarting tie for the highest Scrabble score from restarting at 11 points. The top 10 of 738 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in restarting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and restarting 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 registrant and restarting, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling restarting turns up 7 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arresting. For points, the strongest plays are arresting, restating, retasting, serrating, and treatings — 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 38 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restarting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest, earrings, restrain, starring, starting, stranger, and trainers. For points, the strongest plays are angriest, angstier, astringe, earrings, estating, ganister, gantries, gitterns, gnattier, grainers, granites, granters, gritters, ingrates, rangiest, rearings, regrants, restring, ringster, starring, starting, stranger, stringer, tangiest, tasering, and treating — 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 restarting produces 105 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier, earring, erasing, nastier, ratings, resting, and seating. For points, the strongest plays are aigrets, angrier, argents, earings, earring, easting, eatings, erasing, gainers, gaiters, garners, garnets, garrets, garters, gastrin, genista, gittern, grainer, granite, granter, graters, gratine, gratins, grister, gritter, ingates, ingesta, ingrate, rangers, rangier, ratings, ratting, reagins, rearing, regains, reginas, regrant, resting, retting, ringers, seagirt, searing, seating, seringa, setting, stagier, staring, stating, stinger, strange, tagines, tangier, targets, tarring, tarting, tasting, tearing, teasing, testing, and triages — 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 restarting turns up 145 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, arrest, artist, easing, eating, and giants. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agents, aigret, angers, argent, atting, earing, easing, eating, engirt, erring, gainer, gainst, gaiter, garner, garnet, garret, garter, gaster, gaters, giants, gnarrs, grains, grants, grater, grates, gratin, gratis, greats, ingate, ingest, ragers, ranger, ranges, raring, rasing, rating, reagin, regain, regina, reigns, renigs, rerigs, resign, retags, ringer, sagier, sanger, sating, sering, signer, signet, singer, stager, stinge, strang, string, tagine, targes, target, taring, tasing, tigers, tinges, and triage — 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 172 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restarting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, earns, gains, gates, giant, and grant. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agent, agers, agist, anger, angst, gains, gaits, garni, gater, gates, geans, gears, gents, getas, giant, girns, girts, gites, gnarr, gnars, gnats, grain, grans, grant, grate, great, grins, grist, grits, rager, rages, ragis, range, rangs, regna, reign, renig, rerig, retag, rings, sager, sarge, segni, sengi, signa, singe, stage, staig, stang, sting, tangs, targe, terga, tiger, tinge, tings, tragi, and trigs — 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 restarting produces 159 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, arts, earn, ears, and east. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agin, areg, egis, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gane, gars, gast, gate, gats, gean, gear, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gins, girn, girt, gist, gite, gits, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, nags, negs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, sage, sang, sign, sing, snag, stag, tags, tang, tegs, ting, and trig — 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 restarting turns up 88 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, grr, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — 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 restarting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in restarting plus one additional letter.
restarting 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.
restarting is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing restarting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are registrant and restarting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from restarting 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 restarting produce 738 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 7 nine-letter words, 38 eight-letter words, 105 seven-letter words, 145 six-letter words, 172 five-letter words, 159 four-letter words, 88 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.