Hidden inside whitings sit whisting and whitings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
whisting and whitings tie for the highest Scrabble score from whitings at 15 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in whitings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and whitings 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 whisting and whitings, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in whitings produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wishing. For points, the strongest plays are whiting, wishing, and withing — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling whitings turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nights, things, and within. For points, the strongest play is wights — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in whitings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hints, night, sight, sting, swing, thing, and twins. For points, the strongest plays are whigs and wight — 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 whitings produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hint, hits, sign, sing, thin, this, and tins. For points, the strongest play is whig — 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 whitings turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit, its, sin, sit, tin, and wig. For points, the strongest plays are ghi 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in whitings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, in, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are 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 whitings 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.
whitings 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.
Dictionaries record six senses for whitings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
whitings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing whitings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are whisting and whitings, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from whitings 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 whitings produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.