55 words come out when you unscramble OILTIGHT, starting with OILTIGHT itself: 12 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
O1I1L12T1I1G23H43T1
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from OILTIGHT split into 1 with 8 letters, 6 with 5, 17 with 4, 19 with 3 and 12 with 2. None has 7 or 6 letters.
Keep every letter of OILTIGHT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with OI · ending in HT · all 8-letter words
What OILTIGHT means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept OILTIGHT, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OILTIGHT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 55) | 45 | 55 | 41 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 10 of them: THIG, THOLI, HIOI, LITH, HOI, GLIT, GIO, LIG, TIG and IO. Words With Friends* skips 4 of them: GOTH, TOLT, GI and OI.