Hidden inside clinking sit clinking and nickling, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clinking and nickling tie for the highest Scrabble score from clinking at 15 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in clinking: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clinking itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clinking and nickling, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clinking produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with licking. For points, the strongest plays are licking and nicking — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clinking turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liking and lining. For points, the strongest plays are inking and liking — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clinking. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is clink, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clinking produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with king, lick, and link. For points, the strongest plays are lick and nick — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clinking turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clinking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in clinking 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.
clinking 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 clinking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
clinking is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clinking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clinking and nickling, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clinking 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 clinking produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.