Hidden inside setting sit setting and testing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
setting and testing tie for the highest Scrabble score from setting at 8 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in setting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and setting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: setting and testing, worth 8 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling setting turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ingest, signet, stinge, and tinges, 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in setting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sting and tents. For points, the strongest plays are gents, gites, segni, sengi, singe, sting, tinge, and tings — 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 setting produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, nest, nets, sent, sign, sing, and site. For points, the strongest plays are egis, engs, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, gist, gite, gits, negs, sign, sing, tegs, and ting — 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 setting turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, its, net, set, sin, sit, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are eng, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, neg, seg, sig, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in setting. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in setting and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
setting 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 setting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
setting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing setting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are setting and testing, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from setting 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 setting produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.