Hidden inside things sit nights and things, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GHNITS, SIGNTH or HITSGN and you get the same 6 letters as THINGS: so the words from THINGS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
nights and things tie for the highest Scrabble score from things at 10 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in things: one comes from rearranging its letters, and things itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: nights and things, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in things. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hints, night and sight. For points, the strongest plays are nighs, night, sight, and thing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in things produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hint, hits and sign. For points, the strongest plays are ghis, nigh, and sigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling things turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit and its. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
9 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in things plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in things and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
things 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 one sense for things. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
things is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing things unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nights and things, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from things 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 things produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.