checking needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
checking is the highest-scoring word from checking, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in checking — and it is checking itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checking produces exactly one seven-letter word: chicken. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checking produces exactly one six-letter word: eching. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in checking. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: check and chick, worth 16 points apiece in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in checking produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chin, heck and hike. For points, the strongest plays are heck and hick — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling checking turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, ice, and ink. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in checking and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
checking 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.
checking is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing checking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is checking, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from checking 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 checking produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 13 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.