Hidden inside slighting sit lightings and slighting, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lightings and slighting tie for the highest Scrabble score from slighting at 14 points. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in slighting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slighting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lightings. For points, the strongest plays are lightings and slighting — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slighting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lighting. For points, the strongest plays are lighting and sighting — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slighting produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listing. For points, the strongest play is sighing — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slighting turns up 10 six-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: lights, nights, slight, and things, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slighting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hints, light, night, sight, sting, and thing. For points, the strongest plays are light, nighs, night, sight, and thing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slighting produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gigs, hint, hits, list, sign, sing, and thin. For points, the strongest plays are ghis, nigh, and sigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slighting turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig, his, hit, its, lit, sin, and sit. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slighting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, in, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are hi and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in slighting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in slighting 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.
slighting 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 one sense for slighting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
slighting is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slighting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lightings and slighting, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slighting 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 slighting produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.