Hidden inside worsting sit strowing and worsting, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 227 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strowing and worsting tie for the highest Scrabble score from worsting at 12 points. The top 10 of 227 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in worsting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and worsting 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 strowing and worsting, 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 worsting produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorting. For points, the strongest plays are rowings, stowing, and trowing — each 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 worsting turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, string, strong, and towing. For points, the strongest plays are rowing, sowing, towing, wrings, and wrongs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worsting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, grown, grows, irons, owing, rings, and riots. For points, the strongest plays are gowns, grown, grows, owing, swing, twigs, wings, wring, and wrong — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in worsting produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grow, into, iron, owns, rigs, ring, and riot. For points, the strongest plays are gown, grow, swig, twig, wigs, and wing — 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 worsting turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, its, nor, not, now, own, and rig. For points, the strongest play is wig — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in worsting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, it, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — 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 worsting 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.
worsting 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.
worsting is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing worsting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are strowing and worsting, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from worsting 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 worsting produce 227 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.