Hidden inside teasing sit easting, eatings, genista and 5 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 222 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GAINEST, STANGIE or INSEGAT and you get the same 7 letters as TEASING: so the words from TEASING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
easting, eatings, genista and 2 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from teasing at 8 points. The top 10 of 222 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 8 seven-letter words hiding in teasing: seven come from rearranging its letters, and teasing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seating and teasing. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including seating, teasing and easting.
Unscrambling teasing turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, easing, eating, and giants. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including agents, easing and eating.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, gains and gates. For points, 24 words tie at 6 points, including agent, gains and gates.
Rearranging the letters in teasing produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants and east. For points, 37 words tie at 5 points, including ages, gain and gate.
Unscrambling teasing turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant and ate. For points, 20 words tie at 4 points, including age, gas and get.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
38 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in teasing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in teasing 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.
teasing 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 six senses for teasing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
teasing is one of eight seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing teasing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are easting, eatings, genista, ingates, ingesta, seating, tagines, and teasing, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from teasing 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 teasing produce 222 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 8 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.