Unscramble BIGHTING and you have 42 words, BIGHTING itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
B34I1G23H43T1I1N12G23
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from BIGHTING split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 6, 4 with 5, 11 with 4, 17 with 3 and 6 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of BIGHTING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with BI · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
What BIGHTING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. BIGHTING is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIGHTING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 42) | 36 | 41 | 33 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BIGG, HING, THIG, GING, ING and TIG, 6 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: BING, IGG and GI, 3 in all. Not in Scrabble UK: BINT.
Each word below uses all the letters of BIGHTING and one more.