Definition of hairsplitting

"hairsplitting" in the noun sense

1. hairsplitting, word-splitting

making too fine distinctions of little importance

"they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"

"hairsplitting" in the adjective sense

1. finespun, hairsplitting

developed in excessively fine detail

"finespun distinctions"

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hairsplitting in Scrabble®

The word hairsplitting is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 19

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters hairsplitting:

HAIRSPLITTING
(189)
HAIRSPLITTING
(189)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (82 words)

airings, airship, aisling, alights, alright, anglist, arising, aspirin, garnish, gastrin, girlish, hailing, hairpin, halting, harping, harpist, hatpins, hatting, hitting, initial, insight, intagli, lairing, lapsing, largish, lashing, lasting, lathing, lisping, listing, pairing, parings, parsing, parting, pasting, patting, phasing, philtra, pianist, piarist, pigtail, pilings, pintail, pithing, pitting, plating, plights, prating, railing, raising, rasping, ratings, ratting, rattish, sailing, salting, sapling, shaping, sharing, silting, sitting, slating, sparing, spiring, spiting, spright, staring, starlit, stating, straint, tailing, tailpin, tapings, tarnish, tartish, tasting, tigrish, tilings, tilting, tithing, transit, triptan

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word hairsplitting

HAIRSPLITTING
(189)
HAIRSPLITTING
(189)
HAIRSPLITTING
(126)
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(126)
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(96)
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(96)
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(92)
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(84)
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(84)
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(80)
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(76)
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(76)
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(76)
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(63)
HAIRSPLITTING
(54)
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(46)
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(42)
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(35)
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(29)
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(26)
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(25)
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(25)
HAIRSPLITTING
(24)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In hairsplitting

HAIRSPLITTING
(189)
HAIRSPLITTING
(189)
HAIRSPLITTING
(126)
HAIRSPLITTING
(126)
PHASING
(102 = 52 + 50)
SHAPING
(102 = 52 + 50)
SPRIGHT
(102 = 52 + 50)
HARPING
(102 = 52 + 50)
PLIGHTS
(102 = 52 + 50)
PITHING
(102 = 52 + 50)
SHAPING
(101 = 51 + 50)
PITHING
(101 = 51 + 50)
HARPING
(101 = 51 + 50)
PLIGHTS
(101 = 51 + 50)
PITHING
(101 = 51 + 50)
PHASING
(101 = 51 + 50)
SPRIGHT
(101 = 51 + 50)
HARPIST
(98 = 48 + 50)
PLIGHTS
(98 = 48 + 50)
PHILTRA
(98 = 48 + 50)
PHASING
(98 = 48 + 50)
HAIRPIN
(98 = 48 + 50)
HATPINS
(98 = 48 + 50)
HATPINS
(98 = 48 + 50)
SHAPING
(98 = 48 + 50)
PITHING
(98 = 48 + 50)
SPRIGHT
(98 = 48 + 50)
HARPIST
(98 = 48 + 50)
PHILTRA
(98 = 48 + 50)
AIRSHIP
(98 = 48 + 50)
SHAPING
(98 = 48 + 50)
AIRSHIP
(98 = 48 + 50)
HARPING
(98 = 48 + 50)
HAIRPIN
(98 = 48 + 50)
HARPING
(98 = 48 + 50)
HAIRSPLITTING
(96)
HAIRSPLITTING
(96)
SPRIGHT
(95 = 45 + 50)
LARGISH
(95 = 45 + 50)
HATPINS
(95 = 45 + 50)
LATHING
(95 = 45 + 50)
HARPING
(95 = 45 + 50)
PHASING
(95 = 45 + 50)
PLIGHTS
(95 = 45 + 50)
HAILING
(95 = 45 + 50)
PITHING
(95 = 45 + 50)
LASHING
(95 = 45 + 50)
HAIRPIN
(95 = 45 + 50)
GIRLISH
(95 = 45 + 50)
ALIGHTS
(95 = 45 + 50)
ALRIGHT
(95 = 45 + 50)
HATTING
(95 = 45 + 50)
TIGRISH
(95 = 45 + 50)
AIRSHIP
(95 = 45 + 50)
HITTING
(95 = 45 + 50)
TITHING
(95 = 45 + 50)
TITHING
(95 = 45 + 50)
HATPINS
(95 = 45 + 50)
SHAPING
(95 = 45 + 50)
LATHING
(95 = 45 + 50)
HARPIST
(95 = 45 + 50)
INSIGHT
(95 = 45 + 50)
HALTING
(95 = 45 + 50)
GARNISH
(95 = 45 + 50)
HARPIST
(95 = 45 + 50)
LASHING
(95 = 45 + 50)
PLIGHTS
(95 = 45 + 50)
PHILTRA
(95 = 45 + 50)
SHARING
(95 = 45 + 50)
LARGISH
(94 = 44 + 50)
INSIGHT
(94 = 44 + 50)
HALTING
(94 = 44 + 50)
ALRIGHT
(94 = 44 + 50)
HITTING
(94 = 44 + 50)
TIGRISH
(94 = 44 + 50)
ALIGHTS
(94 = 44 + 50)
HAILING
(94 = 44 + 50)
LATHING
(94 = 44 + 50)
GARNISH
(94 = 44 + 50)
SHARING
(94 = 44 + 50)
TITHING
(94 = 44 + 50)
HATTING
(94 = 44 + 50)
GIRLISH
(94 = 44 + 50)
LASHING
(94 = 44 + 50)
PITHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
HARPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
RATTISH
(92 = 42 + 50)
TARNISH
(92 = 42 + 50)
HARPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PITHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SPRIGHT
(92 = 42 + 50)
PLIGHTS
(92 = 42 + 50)
PITHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PITHING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SHAPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
HARPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SHAPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PLIGHTS
(92 = 42 + 50)
PLIGHTS
(92 = 42 + 50)
PLIGHTS
(92 = 42 + 50)
SHAPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SPRIGHT
(92 = 42 + 50)
PLIGHTS
(92 = 42 + 50)
SHAPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SHAPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SPRIGHT
(92 = 42 + 50)
TARTISH
(92 = 42 + 50)
HARPING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
PHASING
(92 = 42 + 50)
SPRIGHT
(92 = 42 + 50)
HAIRSPLITTING
(92)
SPRIGHT
(92 = 42 + 50)
SPRIGHT
(92 = 42 + 50)
HAIRSPLITTING
(92)
PITTING
(90 = 40 + 50)
PILINGS
(90 = 40 + 50)
AIRSHIP
(90 = 40 + 50)
PAIRING
(90 = 40 + 50)
RATTISH
(90 = 40 + 50)
LAPSING
(90 = 40 + 50)
TARTISH
(90 = 40 + 50)
PARTING
(90 = 40 + 50)
PIGTAIL
(90 = 40 + 50)
TARNISH
(90 = 40 + 50)
RASPING
(90 = 40 + 50)
PLATING
(90 = 40 + 50)
SPITING
(90 = 40 + 50)
LISPING
(90 = 40 + 50)
PRATING
(90 = 40 + 50)
SAPLING
(90 = 40 + 50)
PARSING
(90 = 40 + 50)
SPARING
(90 = 40 + 50)
SPIRING
(90 = 40 + 50)
PATTING
(90 = 40 + 50)
PARINGS
(90 = 40 + 50)
PHILTRA
(90 = 40 + 50)
TAPINGS
(90 = 40 + 50)
PASTING
(90 = 40 + 50)
ALIGHTS
(89 = 39 + 50)
SPRIGHT
(89 = 39 + 50)
AIRSHIP
(89 = 39 + 50)
PATTING
(89 = 39 + 50)
PIGTAIL
(89 = 39 + 50)
PARINGS
(89 = 39 + 50)
HAIRPIN
(89 = 39 + 50)
HATTING
(89 = 39 + 50)
GARNISH
(89 = 39 + 50)
HARPIST
(89 = 39 + 50)
HAIRPIN
(89 = 39 + 50)
LATHING
(89 = 39 + 50)
HARPIST
(89 = 39 + 50)
HATPINS
(89 = 39 + 50)
TITHING
(89 = 39 + 50)
HAIRPIN
(89 = 39 + 50)
HAILING
(89 = 39 + 50)
PARTING
(89 = 39 + 50)
HARPIST
(89 = 39 + 50)
INSIGHT
(89 = 39 + 50)
PRATING
(89 = 39 + 50)
PHASING
(89 = 39 + 50)
HATPINS
(89 = 39 + 50)
SHARING
(89 = 39 + 50)
RASPING
(89 = 39 + 50)
GIRLISH
(89 = 39 + 50)
HARPIST
(89 = 39 + 50)
PLIGHTS
(89 = 39 + 50)
LAPSING
(89 = 39 + 50)
HATPINS
(89 = 39 + 50)
PITHING
(89 = 39 + 50)
ALIGHTS
(89 = 39 + 50)
AIRSHIP
(89 = 39 + 50)
PASTING
(89 = 39 + 50)
AIRSHIP
(89 = 39 + 50)
SPITING
(89 = 39 + 50)
SAPLING
(89 = 39 + 50)
PHILTRA
(89 = 39 + 50)
LASHING
(89 = 39 + 50)
HARPIST
(89 = 39 + 50)
HARPING
(89 = 39 + 50)
PILINGS
(89 = 39 + 50)
HATPINS
(89 = 39 + 50)
LARGISH
(89 = 39 + 50)
SPIRING
(89 = 39 + 50)
LISPING
(89 = 39 + 50)
PITTING
(89 = 39 + 50)
SPARING
(89 = 39 + 50)
PHILTRA
(89 = 39 + 50)
PHILTRA
(89 = 39 + 50)
PHILTRA
(89 = 39 + 50)
TAPINGS
(89 = 39 + 50)
HITTING
(89 = 39 + 50)
TIGRISH
(89 = 39 + 50)
PARSING
(89 = 39 + 50)
LISPING
(89 = 39 + 50)
RASPING
(89 = 39 + 50)

hairsplitting in Words With Friends™

The word hairsplitting is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 22

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters hairsplitting:

HAIRSPLITTING
(288)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (82 words)

airings, airship, aisling, alights, alright, anglist, arising, aspirin, garnish, gastrin, girlish, hailing, hairpin, halting, harping, harpist, hatpins, hatting, hitting, initial, insight, intagli, lairing, lapsing, largish, lashing, lasting, lathing, lisping, listing, pairing, parings, parsing, parting, pasting, patting, phasing, philtra, pianist, piarist, pigtail, pilings, pintail, pithing, pitting, plating, plights, prating, railing, raising, rasping, ratings, ratting, rattish, sailing, salting, sapling, shaping, sharing, silting, sitting, slating, sparing, spiring, spiting, spright, staring, starlit, stating, straint, tailing, tailpin, tapings, tarnish, tartish, tasting, tigrish, tilings, tilting, tithing, transit, triptan

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word hairsplitting

HAIRSPLITTING
(288)
HAIRSPLITTING
(252)
HAIRSPLITTING
(252)
HAIRSPLITTING
(168)
HAIRSPLITTING
(156)
HAIRSPLITTING
(104)
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(104)
HAIRSPLITTING
(104)
HAIRSPLITTING
(100)
HAIRSPLITTING
(88)
HAIRSPLITTING
(88)
HAIRSPLITTING
(88)
HAIRSPLITTING
(64)
HAIRSPLITTING
(52)
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(52)
HAIRSPLITTING
(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(30)
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(29)
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(29)
HAIRSPLITTING
(26)
HAIRSPLITTING
(25)
HAIRSPLITTING
(24)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In hairsplitting

HAIRSPLITTING
(288)
HAIRSPLITTING
(252)
HAIRSPLITTING
(252)
HAIRSPLITTING
(168)
HAIRSPLITTING
(156)
SHAPING
(122 = 87 + 35)
HARPING
(116 = 81 + 35)
PIGTAIL
(116 = 81 + 35)
SHAPING
(116 = 81 + 35)
LISPING
(113 = 78 + 35)
LAPSING
(113 = 78 + 35)
PILINGS
(113 = 78 + 35)
AIRSHIP
(113 = 78 + 35)
PHASING
(110 = 75 + 35)
HARPING
(110 = 75 + 35)
PLIGHTS
(110 = 75 + 35)
PLIGHTS
(110 = 75 + 35)
HATPINS
(110 = 75 + 35)
PITHING
(110 = 75 + 35)
PITHING
(110 = 75 + 35)
HAIRPIN
(110 = 75 + 35)
RASPING
(110 = 75 + 35)
LISPING
(107 = 72 + 35)
PINTAIL
(107 = 72 + 35)
TAILPIN
(107 = 72 + 35)
SPRIGHT
(107 = 72 + 35)
PLATING
(107 = 72 + 35)
SAPLING
(107 = 72 + 35)
HAIRSPLITTING
(104)
PARSING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PATTING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PHILTRA
(104 = 69 + 35)
PITHING
(104 = 69 + 35)
HATPINS
(104 = 69 + 35)
PARINGS
(104 = 69 + 35)
PLIGHTS
(104 = 69 + 35)
PHASING
(104 = 69 + 35)
HARPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PHILTRA
(104 = 69 + 35)
TAPINGS
(104 = 69 + 35)
PLIGHTS
(104 = 69 + 35)
PLIGHTS
(104 = 69 + 35)
HAIRSPLITTING
(104)
SHAPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PRATING
(104 = 69 + 35)
HARPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
HARPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PHASING
(104 = 69 + 35)
HARPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
LASHING
(104 = 69 + 35)
SPITING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PITTING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PITHING
(104 = 69 + 35)
HALTING
(104 = 69 + 35)
SHAPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PAIRING
(104 = 69 + 35)
HAIRSPLITTING
(104)
LATHING
(104 = 69 + 35)
SPARING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PARTING
(104 = 69 + 35)
RASPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PHASING
(104 = 69 + 35)
SHAPING
(104 = 69 + 35)
SPIRING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PITHING
(104 = 69 + 35)
PASTING
(104 = 69 + 35)
SPRIGHT
(101 = 66 + 35)
TITHING
(101 = 66 + 35)
SAPLING
(101 = 66 + 35)
LISPING
(101 = 66 + 35)
LAPSING
(101 = 66 + 35)
PILINGS
(101 = 66 + 35)
PILINGS
(101 = 66 + 35)
LISPING
(101 = 66 + 35)
HARPIST
(101 = 66 + 35)
HARPIST
(101 = 66 + 35)
SPRIGHT
(101 = 66 + 35)
ALIGHTS
(101 = 66 + 35)
SPRIGHT
(101 = 66 + 35)
LISPING
(101 = 66 + 35)
PLATING
(101 = 66 + 35)
PLATING
(101 = 66 + 35)
SAPLING
(101 = 66 + 35)
HAIRSPLITTING
(100)
PITHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
SPITING
(98 = 63 + 35)
SPARING
(98 = 63 + 35)
SPITING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PARTING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PRATING
(98 = 63 + 35)
HALTING
(98 = 63 + 35)
HAILING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PHASING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PASTING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PITTING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PARTING
(98 = 63 + 35)
RASPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
SPARING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PITTING
(98 = 63 + 35)
HAILING
(98 = 63 + 35)
SPIRING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PITHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
HARPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PIANIST
(98 = 63 + 35)
PITHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PARSING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PARINGS
(98 = 63 + 35)
HARPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PARSING
(98 = 63 + 35)
TAPINGS
(98 = 63 + 35)
PLIGHTS
(98 = 63 + 35)
PARINGS
(98 = 63 + 35)
PHILTRA
(98 = 63 + 35)
SPIRING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PHASING
(98 = 63 + 35)
SHAPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
LATHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
HAILING
(98 = 63 + 35)
RASPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
LATHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
SHAPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PASTING
(98 = 63 + 35)
ASPIRIN
(98 = 63 + 35)
PRATING
(98 = 63 + 35)
LASHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
TRIPTAN
(98 = 63 + 35)
HATPINS
(98 = 63 + 35)
TRIPTAN
(98 = 63 + 35)
PAIRING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PHASING
(98 = 63 + 35)
HAIRPIN
(98 = 63 + 35)
PIGTAIL
(98 = 63 + 35)
PAIRING
(98 = 63 + 35)
HATPINS
(98 = 63 + 35)
PATTING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PATTING
(98 = 63 + 35)
PLIGHTS
(98 = 63 + 35)
RASPING
(98 = 63 + 35)
LASHING
(98 = 63 + 35)
HATPINS
(98 = 63 + 35)
HARPING
(95 = 60 + 35)
PINTAIL
(95 = 60 + 35)
TITHING
(95 = 60 + 35)
SHAPING
(95 = 60 + 35)
TITHING
(95 = 60 + 35)
ALRIGHT
(95 = 60 + 35)
HARPIST
(95 = 60 + 35)
PHASING
(95 = 60 + 35)
SHAPING
(95 = 60 + 35)
LARGISH
(95 = 60 + 35)
SHARING
(95 = 60 + 35)
PLATING
(95 = 60 + 35)
PITHING
(95 = 60 + 35)
HITTING
(95 = 60 + 35)
LARGISH
(95 = 60 + 35)
PLIGHTS
(95 = 60 + 35)
HARPIST
(95 = 60 + 35)
HATTING
(95 = 60 + 35)
HARPING
(95 = 60 + 35)
PLIGHTS
(95 = 60 + 35)
LARGISH
(95 = 60 + 35)
LISPING
(95 = 60 + 35)
HITTING
(95 = 60 + 35)
ALIGHTS
(95 = 60 + 35)
HARPING
(95 = 60 + 35)
LAPSING
(95 = 60 + 35)
ALRIGHT
(95 = 60 + 35)
SAPLING
(95 = 60 + 35)
ALIGHTS
(95 = 60 + 35)
HARPIST
(95 = 60 + 35)
AIRSHIP
(95 = 60 + 35)
PITHING
(95 = 60 + 35)
SHAPING
(95 = 60 + 35)
PITHING
(95 = 60 + 35)
GARNISH
(95 = 60 + 35)
LISPING
(95 = 60 + 35)
HATTING
(95 = 60 + 35)
SPRIGHT
(95 = 60 + 35)
PILINGS
(95 = 60 + 35)
SAPLING
(95 = 60 + 35)
GIRLISH
(95 = 60 + 35)
GARNISH
(95 = 60 + 35)
PIARIST
(95 = 60 + 35)
INSIGHT
(95 = 60 + 35)
GIRLISH
(95 = 60 + 35)
SHARING
(95 = 60 + 35)
PLATING
(95 = 60 + 35)
PHASING
(95 = 60 + 35)
PHASING
(95 = 60 + 35)
LAPSING
(95 = 60 + 35)
PLIGHTS
(95 = 60 + 35)
INSIGHT
(95 = 60 + 35)
PILINGS
(95 = 60 + 35)
PLATING
(95 = 60 + 35)
PASTING
(92 = 57 + 35)
PLIGHTS
(92 = 57 + 35)
TRIPTAN
(92 = 57 + 35)
HAILING
(92 = 57 + 35)
ANGLIST
(92 = 57 + 35)
HARPING
(92 = 57 + 35)

Words within the letters of hairsplitting

2 letter words in hairsplitting (16 words)

10 letter words in hairsplitting (3 words)

13 letter words in hairsplitting (1 word)

hairsplitting + 1 blank (1 word)

Words containing the sequence hairsplitting

Words that start with hairsplitting (2 words)

Words with hairsplitting in them (1 word)

Words that end with hairsplitting (1 word)

Word Growth involving hairsplitting

Shorter words in hairsplitting

ai air airs hairs

ai air hair hairs

ha hair hairs

it lit split splitting

in tin ting splitting

Longer words containing hairsplitting

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