Hidden inside singe sit segni, sengi, and singe, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
segni, sengi, and singe tie for the highest Scrabble score from singe at 6 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in singe: two come from rearranging its letters, and singe itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are segni, sengi, and singe, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
38 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in singe plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in singe 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.
singe 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 three senses for singe. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
singe is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing singe unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are segni, sengi, and singe, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from singe 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 singe produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.