Hidden inside sorting sit sorting, storing, and trigons, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sorting, storing, and trigons tie for the highest Scrabble score from sorting at 8 points. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in sorting: two come from rearranging its letters, and sorting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorting. For points, the strongest plays are sorting, storing, and trigons — 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 sorting turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, string, and strong. For points, the strongest plays are girons, griots, grison, groins, ingots, rosing, signor, soring, stingo, string, strong, tigons, trigon, and trigos — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sorting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, irons, rings, riots, and sting. For points, the strongest plays are girns, giron, giros, girts, grins, griot, grist, grits, groin, grots, ingot, rings, sting, tigon, tings, tongs, trigo, trigs, and trogs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sorting produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron, rigs, ring, riot, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are gins, girn, giro, girt, gist, gits, grin, grit, grot, nogs, orgs, rigs, ring, sign, sing, snog, song, ting, togs, tong, trig, and trog — 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 sorting turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, its, nor, not, rig, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are gin, gis, git, gor, gos, got, nog, org, rig, sig, and tog — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sorting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, it, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
23 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in sorting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sorting and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
sorting 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 sorting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
sorting is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sorting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sorting, storing, and trigons, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sorting 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 sorting produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.