Hidden inside wasting sit tawsing and wasting, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tawsing and wasting tie for the highest Scrabble score from wasting at 11 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in wasting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wasting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wasting. For points, the strongest plays are tawsing and wasting — 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 wasting turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants. For points, the strongest plays are sawing, tawing, twangs, and wigans — 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 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wasting. 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 wasting produces 57 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 wasting 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 wasting. 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.
Swap a single tile in wasting and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
wasting 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 wasting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
wasting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wasting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tawsing and wasting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wasting 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 wasting produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.