clippings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clippings is the highest-scoring word from clippings, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in clippings — and it is clippings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clippings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slipping. For points, the strongest play is clipping — 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 clippings produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slicing. For points, the strongest plays are lipping, pipings, sipping, and spicing — each 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 clippings turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is piping, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clippings. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: clips, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clippings produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clip, lips, pigs, pins, sign, sing, and slip. For points, the strongest plays are clip, pics, and pips — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clippings turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lip, pig, pin, sin, and sip. For points, the strongest plays are pic and pip — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clippings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is pi — worth 4 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 clippings 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.
clippings 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 three senses for clippings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
clippings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clippings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is clippings, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from clippings 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 clippings produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.