Hidden inside sting sit sting and tings, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble STIGN, SGNIT or TSNGI and you get the same 5 letters as STING: so the words from STING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
sting and tings tie for the highest Scrabble score from sting at 6 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in sting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sting. For points, the strongest plays are sting and tings — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sting turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, sin, sit, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are gin, gis, git, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in sting and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
sting 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 ten senses for sting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
sting is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sting and tings, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sting 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 sting produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.