Hidden inside skirting sit skirting and striking, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skirting and striking tie for the highest Scrabble score from skirting at 13 points. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in skirting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and skirting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with striking. For points, the strongest plays are skirting and striking — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in skirting produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with risking. For points, the strongest plays are griskin, kitings, risking, and skiting — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling skirting turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rising, skiing, and string. For points, the strongest plays are irking, kiting, skiing, and tsking — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in skirting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kings, knits and rings. For points, the strongest plays are ginks and kings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in skirting produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, king and kits. For points, the strongest plays are gink and king — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling skirting turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, its and kit. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including ink, kit and ski.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in skirting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in skirting 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.
skirting 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 one sense for skirting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
skirting is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing skirting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are skirting and striking, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from skirting 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 skirting produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.