Unscramble LATHING and you have 130 words, LATHING itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. LATHING has 1 anagram here, HALTING, scoring 11 like LATHING itself. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. All 7 tiles of LATHING in one turn: 61 in Scrabble (11 + 50), 48 in Words With Friends (13 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from LATHING by length: 2 with 7 letters, 4 with 6, 25 with 5, 45 with 4, 38 with 3 and 16 with 2.
10 of 25 5-letter words you get when you unscramble LATHING tie at 9 points; none scores more. NIGHT, LIGHT and THING will look familiar.
Of the 45 4-letter words from LATHING, 6 score 8 points, the group's best. ANTI, GAIN and THIN are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of LATHING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with LA · ending in NG · all 7-letter words
What LATHING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
LATHING works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LATHING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 130) | 102 | 130 | 94 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
28 of the 130 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ANIGHT, AIGHT, ANIGH, HANGI, THAGI, AHINT, GATH, HIANT, HING, THIG, HAIN, LITH and 16 more. 8 of the 130 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: AHING, THANG, HAINT, THALI, AHI, LAH, TIAN and GI.
With one more tile, the letters of LATHING spell the words below.