Hidden inside blackings sit blackings and slingback, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 298 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blackings and slingback tie for the highest Scrabble score from blackings at 18 points. The top 10 of 298 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in blackings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and blackings 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 blackings and slingback, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blackings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are backings and blacking, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in blackings produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with backing and lacking. For points, the strongest play is backing — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling blackings turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asking, baking, basing, blinks, cabins, and signal. For points, the strongest play is blacks — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blackings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with backs, bails, bangs, banks, basic, black, and blink. For points, the strongest plays are backs and black — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in blackings produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with back, bags, bail, bang, bank, bans, and cabs. For points, the strongest play is back — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling blackings turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, bag, ban, big, cab, can, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are ack, ick, and kab — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blackings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in blackings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blackings 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.
blackings 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for blackings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
blackings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blackings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blackings and slingback, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blackings 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 blackings produce 298 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.