Hidden inside casting sit actings and casting, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
actings and casting tie for the highest Scrabble score from casting at 10 points. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in casting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and casting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casting. For points, the strongest plays are actings and casting — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling casting turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting and giants. For points, the strongest plays are acting and casing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in casting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, saint, stain, and sting. For points, the strongest play is acing — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in casting produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, cans, cast, cats, gain, and nags. For points, the strongest plays are cigs and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling casting turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, gas, its, and nag. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in casting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each 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 casting 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.
casting 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 four senses for casting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
casting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing casting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are actings and casting, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from casting 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 casting produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.