Hidden inside earrings sit earrings, grainers, and rearings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earrings, grainers, and rearings tie for the highest Scrabble score from earrings at 9 points. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in earrings: two come from rearranging its letters, and earrings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earrings. For points, the strongest plays are earrings, grainers, and rearings — each 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 earrings produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier, earring, and erasing. For points, the strongest plays are angrier, earings, earring, erasing, gainers, garners, grainer, rangers, rangier, reagins, rearing, regains, reginas, ringers, searing, and seringa — 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 earrings turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, easing, ranges, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are angers, earing, easing, erring, gainer, garner, gnarrs, grains, ragers, ranger, ranges, raring, rasing, reagin, regain, regina, reigns, renigs, rerigs, resign, ringer, sagier, sanger, sering, signer, and singer — 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 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earrings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, earns, gains, rages, rains, raise, and range. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agers, anger, gains, garni, geans, gears, girns, gnarr, gnars, grain, grans, grins, rager, rages, ragis, range, rangs, regna, reign, renig, rerig, rings, sager, sarge, segni, sengi, signa, and singe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in earrings produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, earn, ears, eras, gain, and nags. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, agin, areg, egis, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gain, gane, gars, gean, gear, gens, gien, gies, gins, girn, gnar, gran, grin, nags, negs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, sage, sang, sign, sing, and snag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling earrings turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, era, gas, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gas, gen, gie, gin, gis, grr, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, and sig — each worth 4 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 earrings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 earrings 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.
earrings 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 2-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 earrings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
earrings is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing earrings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earrings, grainers, and rearings, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from earrings 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 earrings produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.