Hidden inside signing sit signing and singing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
signing and singing tie for the highest Scrabble score from signing at 9 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in signing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and signing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: signing and singing, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in signing produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gigs, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are gigs and iggs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in signing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in signing 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.
signing 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 4-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 signing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
signing is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing signing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are signing and singing, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from signing 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 signing produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.