Hidden inside storing sit sorting, storing, and trigons, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sorting, storing, and trigons tie for the highest Scrabble score from storing at 8 points. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in storing: two come from rearranging its letters, and storing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorting. For points, the strongest plays are sorting, storing, and trigons — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling storing turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, string, and strong. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including groins, string and strong.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in storing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, irons and rings. For points, 19 words tie at 6 points, including groin, rings and sting.
Rearranging the letters in storing produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron and rigs. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including rigs, ring and sign.
Unscrambling storing turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, its and nor. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including got, rig and gin.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in storing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
23 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in storing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in storing 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.
storing 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.
storing is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing storing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sorting, storing, and trigons, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from storing 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 storing produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.