signposts needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 180 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
signposts is the highest-scoring word from signposts, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 180 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in signposts — and it is signposts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signposts. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are postings, signpost, and stopings, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in signposts produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gossips, posting, and tossing. For points, the strongest plays are gossips, posting, spigots, and stoping — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling signposts turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gossip, points, posing, and stings. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including gossip, posing and gipons.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signposts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point, posts and signs. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including gipon, oping and pingo.
Rearranging the letters in signposts produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, pigs and pins. For points, the strongest plays are gips, pigs, ping, and pong — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling signposts turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, its and not. For points, the strongest plays are gip and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signposts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in signposts and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
signposts 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for signposts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
signposts is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing signposts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is signposts, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from signposts 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 signposts produce 180 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.