Hidden inside sifting sit fisting and sifting, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fisting and sifting tie for the highest Scrabble score from sifting at 11 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sifting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sifting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fisting and sifting, 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 sifting produces exactly one six-letter word: siting. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sifting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gifts and sting. For points, the strongest play is gifts — 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 sifting produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fist, fits, gift, sign, sing, and tins. For points, the strongest plays are figs, gifs, and gift — 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 sifting turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, its, sin, sit, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are fig and gif — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sifting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is if — 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 sifting 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.
sifting 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 one sense for sifting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
sifting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sifting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fisting and sifting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sifting 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 sifting produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.