Hidden inside tasting sit stating and tasting, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stating and tasting tie for the highest Scrabble score from tasting at 8 points. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tasting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tasting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tasting. For points, the strongest plays are stating and tasting — 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 tasting turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants. For points, the strongest plays are atting, gainst, giants, sating, and tasing — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tasting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, saint, stain, and sting. For points, the strongest plays are agist, angst, gains, gaits, giant, gnats, signa, staig, stang, sting, tangs, 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 tasting produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, gain, nags, sang, sign, sing, and stat. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, gait, gast, gats, gins, gist, gits, gnat, nags, sang, sign, sing, snag, stag, tags, tang, 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 tasting turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, gas, its, nag, sat, sin, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are ags, gan, gas, gat, gin, gis, git, nag, sag, sig, and tag — 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 tasting. 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.
Swap a single tile in tasting 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.
tasting 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 three senses for tasting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tasting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tasting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stating and tasting, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tasting 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 tasting produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.