Hidden inside spitting sit pittings and spitting, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pittings and spitting tie for the highest Scrabble score from spitting at 11 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in spitting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and spitting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spitting. For points, the strongest plays are pittings and spitting — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in spitting produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sitting. For points, the strongest plays are pitting and spiting — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling spitting turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is siping, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spitting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sting. For points, the strongest plays are piing and pings — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in spitting produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pigs, pins, pits, sign, sing, spin, and spit. For points, the strongest plays are gips, pigs, and ping — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling spitting turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, pig, pin, pit, sin, sip, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are gip and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spitting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is pi — worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in spitting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in spitting 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.
spitting 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 spitting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
spitting is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing spitting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pittings and spitting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from spitting 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 spitting produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.