Hidden inside stealing sit gelatins, genitals, stealing and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 457 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gelatins, genitals, stealing and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from stealing at 9 points. The top 10 of 457 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in stealing: three come from rearranging its letters, and stealing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genitals and stealing. For points, the strongest plays are gelatins, genitals, stealing, and taglines — 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 stealing produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasting, sealing, seating, and teasing. For points, the strongest plays are aiglets, atingle, easting, eatings, elating, gelants, gelatin, gelatis, genista, genital, glisten, ingates, ingesta, lasting, leasing, ligates, linages, salting, sealing, seating, singlet, slating, sniglet, staling, tagines, tagline, tangles, teasing, and tingles — 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 stealing turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, aliens, angels, angles, easing, eating, and giants. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agents, aglets, aiglet, algins, aligns, angels, angles, easing, eating, gainst, gaslit, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, giants, gleans, glints, ingate, ingest, ingles, lasing, legist, legits, liangs, ligans, ligase, ligate, linage, lingas, sating, signal, signet, silage, single, stinge, tagine, tangle, tasing, tinges, and tingle — 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 111 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stealing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aisle, alien, angel, angle, gains, and gates. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agent, agile, agist, aglet, algin, align, angel, angle, angst, gains, gaits, gales, gates, geans, gelts, gents, getas, giant, gilts, gites, glans, glean, glens, glias, glint, gnats, ingle, legit, liang, ligan, linga, lings, segni, sengi, sigla, signa, singe, slang, sling, stage, staig, stang, sting, tangs, tinge, and tings — 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 stealing produces 139 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, east, eats, gain, gals, and gate. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agin, egal, egis, engs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gale, gals, gane, gast, gate, gats, gean, gels, gelt, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gilt, gins, gist, gite, gits, glen, glia, gnat, lags, lang, legs, ling, nags, negs, sage, sang, sign, sing, slag, snag, stag, tags, tang, tegs, and ting — 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 stealing turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ate, eat, gal, gas, and get. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, gae, gal, gan, gas, gat, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, lag, leg, nag, neg, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stealing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
26 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in stealing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stealing 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.
stealing 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 two senses for stealing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
stealing is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stealing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gelatins, genitals, stealing, and taglines, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stealing 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 stealing produce 457 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 111 five-letter words, 139 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.