Hidden inside settings sit settings and testings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
settings and testings tie for the highest Scrabble score from settings at 9 points. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in settings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and settings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with testings. For points, the strongest plays are settings and testings — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in settings produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with setting and testing. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including setting, testing and ingests.
Unscrambling settings turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stings. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including stings, gneiss and ingest.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in settings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nests, signs and sings. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including signs, sings and sting.
Rearranging the letters in settings produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, nest and nets. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including gets, sign and sing.
Unscrambling settings turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, its and net. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including get, eng and gen.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in settings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in settings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in settings 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.
settings 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.
Dictionaries record seven senses for settings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
settings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing settings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are settings and testings, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from settings 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 settings produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.