Hidden inside staying sit staying and stygian, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
staying and stygian tie for the highest Scrabble score from staying at 11 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in staying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and staying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with staying. For points, the strongest plays are staying and stygian — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling staying turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants and saying. For points, the strongest plays are angsty, saying, stingy, and stying — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, nasty, saint, stain, sting, and tying. For points, the strongest plays are stagy, tangy, tying, yagis, and yangs — 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 staying produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, gain, nags, sang, sign, sing, and stay. For points, the strongest plays are gays, sagy, yagi, yags, and yang — 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 staying turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, any, gas, gay, its, nag, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are gay and yag — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, ay, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in staying 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.
staying 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.
staying is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing staying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are staying and stygian, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from staying 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 staying produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.