Hidden inside twisting sit twisting and wittings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
twisting and wittings tie for the highest Scrabble score from twisting at 12 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in twisting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and twisting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with twisting. For points, the strongest plays are twisting and wittings — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in twisting produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sitting. For points, the strongest plays are wisting and witting — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling twisting turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are wising and witing, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in twisting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sting, swing, twins, twist, and wings. For points, the strongest plays are swing, twigs, and wings — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in twisting produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sign, sing, tins, tits, twin, wigs, and wing. For points, the strongest plays are swig, twig, wigs, and wing — 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 twisting turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, sin, sit, tin, tit, wig, and win. For points, the strongest play is wig — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in twisting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in twisting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in twisting and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
twisting 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 twisting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
twisting is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing twisting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are twisting and wittings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from twisting 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 twisting produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.