Hidden inside waitings sit waisting and waitings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
waisting and waitings tie for the highest Scrabble score from waitings at 12 points. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in waitings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and waitings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are waisting and waitings, 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 waitings produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with waiting and wasting. For points, the strongest plays are tawsing, waiting, wasting, and wisting — 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 waitings turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants. For points, the strongest plays are sawing, tawing, twangs, wigans, 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waitings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, saint, stain, sting, swing, and twins. For points, the strongest plays are awing, gnaws, swang, swing, twang, twigs, wigan, 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 waitings produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, gain, nags, sang, sign, sing, and swan. For points, the strongest plays are gnaw, swag, swig, twig, wags, 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 waitings turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, gas, its, nag, sat, saw, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are wag and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waitings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, aw, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is aw — worth 5 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 waitings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in waitings 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.
waitings 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 two senses for waitings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
waitings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waitings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are waisting and waitings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from waitings 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 waitings produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.