Hidden inside using sit suing and using, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
suing and using tie for the highest Scrabble score from using at 6 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in using: one comes from rearranging its letters, and using itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: suing and using, worth 6 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 using produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, sign, sing, and sung. For points, the strongest plays are gins, gnus, guns, nugs, sign, sing, snug, and sung — 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 using turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, sin, and sun. For points, the strongest plays are gin, gis, gnu, gun, nug, and sig — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in using. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and us. 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.
Swap a single tile in using 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.
using 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 3-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 using. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
using is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing using unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are suing and using, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from using 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 using produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.