Unscramble STINGE and you have 106 words, STINGE itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: INGEST, SIGNET and TINGES. Among the shorter answers, 11 reach 6 points, STING, GENTS and TINGE among them. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from STINGE split into 4 with 6 letters, 19 with 5, 40 with 4, 31 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Of the 40 4-letter words from STINGE, 22 score 5 points, the group's best. SITE, SIGN and SENT are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of STINGE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with ST · ending in GE · all 6-letter words
What STINGE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: STINGE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| STINGE itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 106) | 87 | 106 | 74 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 19 of them: GEIST, GEITS, TIGES, GEIT, INGS, SIENT, SNIG, TIGE, TIGS, ENTS, ING, NIES and 7 more. Words With Friends* skips 13 of them: STINGE, GITES, GITE, NEGS, TEINS, GIS, NEG, SIG, TEIN, EST, GI, TES and 1 more.
With one more tile, the letters of STINGE spell the words below.