sixtieth needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sixtieth is the highest-scoring word from sixtieth, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in sixtieth — and it is sixtieth itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sixtieth. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exist, exits, sixth, and texts. For points, the strongest play is sixth — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sixtieth produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exit, hits and site. For points, the strongest plays are exit, sext, and text — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sixtieth turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit and its. For points, the strongest play is hex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sixtieth. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ex and he. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in sixtieth plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sixtieth 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.
sixtieth 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 1-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 sixtieth. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
sixtieth is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sixtieth unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sixtieth, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sixtieth 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 sixtieth produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.