Hidden inside thin sit hint and thin, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 11 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hint and thin tie for the highest Scrabble score from thin at 7 points. The top 10 of 11 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in thin: one comes from rearranging its letters, and thin itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: hint and thin, worth 7 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling thin turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hit and tin. For points, the strongest plays are hin, hit, and nth — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thin. 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 thin and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
thin 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in thin carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record thirteen senses for thin. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
thin is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thin unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hint and thin, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from thin 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 thin produce 11 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.