drinkings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drinkings is the highest-scoring word from drinkings, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in drinkings — and it is drinkings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drinkings produces exactly one eight-letter word: drinking. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drinkings produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with risking and sinking. For points, the strongest plays are dinking, dirking, and disking — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drinkings turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dining, drinks and grinds. For points, the strongest play is diking — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drinkings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drink, grind and kinds. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including drink, kinds and kings.
Rearranging the letters in drinkings produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with digs, inks and kids. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including kids, kind and king.
Unscrambling drinkings turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, ids and ink. For points, the strongest play is kid — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in drinkings 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.
drinkings is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record two senses for drinkings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
drinkings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drinkings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is drinkings, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from drinkings 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 drinkings produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.