Hidden inside collaring sit carolling and collaring, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 246 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carolling and collaring tie for the highest Scrabble score from collaring at 12 points. The top 10 of 246 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in collaring: one comes from rearranging its letters, and collaring 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 carolling and collaring, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collaring. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is caroling, 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 collaring produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calling, gorilla, logical, and rolling. For points, the strongest plays are calling, carling, clangor, coaling, logical, and organic — 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 collaring turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring, collar, gallon, garlic, and racing. For points, the strongest plays are agonic, arcing, caring, coring, gallic, garcon, garlic, lacing, locing, orgiac, and racing — 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 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collaring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, cigar, grill, groin, local, logic, and organ. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cargo, cigar, clang, cling, coign, conga, corgi, incog, logic, and orgic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in collaring produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with call, coin, cola, corn, gain, girl, and goal. For points, the strongest plays are clag, clog, and crag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling collaring turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, air, all, can, car, con, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collaring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, go, in, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 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 collaring plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in collaring 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.
collaring 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.
collaring is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing collaring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carolling and collaring, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from collaring 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 collaring produce 246 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.