Hidden inside wilting sit wilting and witling, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TWINGIL or WIGTLIN and you get the same 7 letters as WILTING: so the words from WILTING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
wilting and witling tie for the highest Scrabble score from wilting at 11 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in wilting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wilting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are wilting and witling, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wilting produces exactly one five-letter word: glint. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wilting produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with twin and wing. For points, the strongest plays are twig and wing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in wilting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wilting 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.
wilting 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 wilting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
wilting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wilting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are wilting and witling, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wilting 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 wilting produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 9 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.