whatsits needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
whatsits is the highest-scoring word from whatsits, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in whatsits — and it is whatsits itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in whatsits produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are whatsis and whatsit, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling whatsits turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with twists and waists. For points, the strongest plays are swaths and whists — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in whatsits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stats, twist, waist, and waits. For points, the strongest plays are shaws, shwas, swash, swath, swish, swith, thaws, whats, whist, whits, and wisha — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in whatsits produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hats, hits, sits, stat, that, this, and tits. For points, the strongest plays are haws, shaw, shwa, thaw, wash, what, whit, wish, and with — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling whatsits turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ass, has, hat, his, hit, and its. For points, the strongest plays are haw and wha — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in whatsits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, aw, ha, hi, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ah, aw, ha, hi, and sh — each 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 whatsits 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.
whatsits 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.
whatsits is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing whatsits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is whatsits, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from whatsits 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 whatsits produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.