Unscramble WHETTING and you have 122 words, WHETTING itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
W4H43E1T1T1I1N12G23
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from WHETTING by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 9 with 6, 24 with 5, 37 with 4, 36 with 3 and 13 with 2.
WEIGH and WIGHT are the top 5-letter words you get when you unscramble WHETTING, 12 points each. WHITE, NIGHT and THING will look familiar.
WHIG scores highest among the 4-letter words from WHETTING at 11 points, ahead of HEWN and THEW on 10. THEN, WENT and WINE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of WHETTING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with WH · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
WHETTING first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
WHETTING 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHETTING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 122) | 105 | 122 | 98 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 17 of them: TWIGHT, TEWHIT, HETING, EHING, WINGE, HING, TEWIT, THIG, TWITE, EWT, ETTIN, GEIT and 5 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: GWINE, EW, GITE, NEG, TEIN, GI and TE.