Hidden inside signs sit signs and sings, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 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.
signs and sings tie for the highest Scrabble score from signs at 6 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 signs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and signs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: signs and sings, worth 6 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in signs produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sign, sing, and sins. For points, the strongest plays are gins, sign, sigs, and sing — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling signs turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sin. For points, the strongest plays are gin, gis, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in signs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 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 signs 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.
signs 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 twenty senses for signs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
signs is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing signs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are signs and sings, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from signs 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 signs produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.