Hidden inside stinger sit resting and stinger, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 179 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resting and stinger tie for the highest Scrabble score from stinger at 8 points. The top 10 of 179 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in stinger: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stinger itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resting. For points, the strongest plays are resting and stinger — 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 stinger turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with singer, string, and tigers. For points, the strongest plays are engirt, ingest, reigns, renigs, resign, sering, signer, signet, singer, stinge, string, tigers, and tinges — 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 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stinger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rents, rings, risen, siren, sting, tiger, and tires. For points, the strongest plays are gents, girns, girts, gites, grins, grist, grits, reign, renig, rings, segni, sengi, singe, sting, tiger, tinge, tings, and trigs — 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 stinger produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, nest, nets, rent, rest, rigs, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are egis, engs, ergs, gens, gent, gest, gets, gien, gies, gins, girn, girt, gist, gite, gits, grin, grit, negs, regs, rigs, ring, sign, sing, tegs, ting, and trig — 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 stinger turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, its, net, rig, set, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are eng, erg, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, neg, reg, rig, seg, sig, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stinger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
32 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in stinger plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stinger 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.
stinger 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 five senses for stinger. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
stinger is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stinger unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resting and stinger, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stinger 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 stinger produce 179 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.