42 words come out when you unscramble WITHING, starting with WITHING itself: 14 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. WITHING has 1 anagram here, WHITING, scoring 14 like WITHING itself. The 7 letters split into 2 vowels and 5 consonants. All 7 tiles of WITHING in one turn: 64 in Scrabble (14 + 50), 50 in Words With Friends (15 + 35).
W4I1T1H43I1N12G23
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from WITHING by length: 2 with 7 letters, 3 with 6, 4 with 5, 14 with 4, 14 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of WITHING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with WI · ending in NG · all 7-letter words
What WITHING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept WITHING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WITHING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 42) | 35 | 42 | 34 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 7 of them: INWITH, HING, INWIT, THIG, IWI, ING and TIG. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: GI.
These 7 words take every letter of WITHING plus a single extra one.