Hidden inside blastings sit blastings and stablings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 330 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blastings and stablings tie for the highest Scrabble score from blastings at 12 points. The top 10 of 330 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in blastings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and blastings 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 blastings and stablings, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blastings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blasting. For points, the strongest plays are bastings, blasting, stabling, and tablings — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blastings produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasting and signals. For points, the strongest plays are ablings, balings, basting, and tabling — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blastings turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assign, basing and blasts. For points, the strongest plays are baling, basing, bating, and blings — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blastings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bails, baits and bangs. For points, the strongest plays are bangs, blags, and bling — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blastings produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, bags and bail. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including bags, bang and bigs.
Unscrambling blastings turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ass and bag. For points, the strongest plays are bag, big, gab, and gib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blastings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in blastings 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.
blastings 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for blastings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
blastings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blastings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blastings and stablings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blastings 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 blastings produce 330 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.