Hidden inside assailing sit aliasings and assailing, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aliasings and assailing tie for the highest Scrabble score from assailing at 10 points. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in assailing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and assailing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aliasings and assailing, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assailing. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aliasing and sailings, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in assailing produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sailing and signals. For points, the strongest plays are agnails, nilgais, sailing, and signals — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling assailing turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assign and signal. For points, the strongest plays are agnail, ailing, algins, aligns, assign, isling, lagans, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, nilgai, saigas, sangas, sigils, signal, slangs, and slings — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assailing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, gains, glass, nails, sails, salsa, and signs. For points, the strongest plays are again, alang, algas, algin, align, angas, gains, galas, glans, glass, glias, lagan, liang, ligan, linga, lings, nagas, sagas, saiga, sanga, sigil, sigla, signa, signs, sings, slags, slang, sling, and snags — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in assailing produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gals, nags, nail, sail, sang, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are agas, agin, alga, anga, gain, gala, gals, gins, glia, lags, lang, ling, naga, nags, saga, sags, sang, sign, sigs, sing, slag, and snag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling assailing turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, gal, gas, nag, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are aga, ags, gal, gan, gas, gin, gis, lag, nag, sag, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assailing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in assailing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in assailing and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
assailing is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
assailing is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing assailing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aliasings and assailing, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from assailing earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in assailing produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.