Hidden inside listing sit listing, silting, and tilings, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
listing, silting, and tilings tie for the highest Scrabble score from listing at 8 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in listing: two come from rearranging its letters, and listing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listing. For points, the strongest plays are listing, silting, and tilings — 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 listing turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glints, isling, siting, and tiling, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in listing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sting. For points, the strongest plays are gilts, glint, lings, sigil, sling, sting, and tings — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in listing produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with list, sign, sing, and tins. For points, the strongest plays are gilt, gins, gist, gits, ling, sign, sing, and ting — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling listing turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, lit, sin, sit, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are gin, gis, git, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in listing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 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 listing 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.
listing 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 two senses for listing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
listing is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing listing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are listing, silting, and tilings, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from listing 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 listing produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.