beginnings needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
beginnings is the highest-scoring word from beginnings, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in beginnings — and it is beginnings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling beginnings turns up 2 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beginning. For points, the strongest plays are beginning and bingeings — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beginnings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bingeing and bingings, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in beginnings produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with biggies, signing, and singing. For points, the strongest plays are biggies, biggins, and binging — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling beginnings turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begins, beings, and biggie. For points, the strongest plays are biggie, biggin, and gibing — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beginnings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, being, genii, and nines. For points, the strongest plays are begin, being, binge, and gibes — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in beginnings produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, eggs, gigs, nine, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are begs, bigs, bing, gibe, and gibs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling beginnings turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, big, egg, gig, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are beg, big, and gib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beginnings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are be and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
beginnings 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 6-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for beginnings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
beginnings is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing beginnings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is beginnings, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from beginnings 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 beginnings produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.