Hidden inside sifts sit fists and sifts, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fists and sifts tie for the highest Scrabble score from sifts at 8 points. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in sifts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sifts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fists. For points, the strongest plays are fists and sifts — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sifts produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fist, fits, and sits. For points, the strongest plays are fist, fits, and sift — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sifts turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, its, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are fit and ifs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sifts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, 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 sifts and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
sifts 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 sifts carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for sifts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
sifts is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sifts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fists and sifts, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sifts 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 sifts produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.