Hidden inside righties sit righties and tigerish, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
righties and tigerish tie for the highest Scrabble score from righties at 12 points. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in righties: one comes from rearranging its letters, and righties 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 righties and tigerish, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in righties produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are resight, sighter, and tigrish, 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 righties turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rights, theirs, and tigers. For points, the strongest plays are eights, girths, griths, rights, and sigher — 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in righties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, hires, right, shier, shirt, sight, and their. For points, the strongest plays are eight, girsh, girth, grith, right, and sight — 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 righties produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, hers, hire, hits, rest, rigs, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are ghis and sigh — 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 righties turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, her, his, hit, its, rig, and set. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in righties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 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 righties 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.
righties 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in righties carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
righties is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing righties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are righties and tigerish, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from righties 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 righties produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.