Hidden inside thing sit night and thing, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
night and thing tie for the highest Scrabble score from thing at 9 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in thing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and thing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: night and thing, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in thing produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hint and thin. For points, the strongest play is nigh — 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 thing turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hit and tin. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, in, and it. For points, the strongest play is hi — worth 5 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 thing 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.
thing 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record twelve senses for thing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
thing is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are night and thing, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from thing 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 thing produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.