Hidden inside sighters sit resights and sighters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resights and sighters tie for the highest Scrabble score from sighters at 12 points. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sighters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sighters 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 resights and sighters, 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 sighters produces 5 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 girshes, resight, sighers, and sighter, 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 sighters turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resist, rights, shiest, shirts, sights, sister, and theirs. For points, the strongest plays are eights, girths, griths, rights, sigher, and sights — 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sighters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, hires, rests, right, rises, shier, and shirt. For points, the strongest plays are eight, girsh, girth, grith, right, sighs, 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 sighters produces 57 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 sighters turns up 38 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 sighters. 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 sighters 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.
sighters 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 sighters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
sighters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sighters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resights and sighters, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sighters 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 sighters produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.