witching needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
witching is the highest-scoring word from witching, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in witching — and it is witching itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in witching produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with itching. For points, the strongest plays are whiting 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 witching turns up 4 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: within, worth 12 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 witching. If a familiar word is all you need, start with night, thing, and witch. For points, the strongest plays are winch and witch — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in witching produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chin, hint, inch, itch, thin, twin, and wing. For points, the strongest play is wich — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling witching turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hit, tin, wig, and win. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in witching. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, in, and it. For points, the strongest play is hi — 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 witching 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.
witching 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 witching. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
witching is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing witching unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is witching, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from witching 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 witching produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.