Hidden inside earthling sit earthling, haltering, and lathering, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 515 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earthling, haltering, and lathering tie for the highest Scrabble score from earthling at 13 points. The top 10 of 515 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in earthling: two come from rearranging its letters, and earthling 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 earthling, haltering, and lathering, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earthling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altering, relating, and triangle. For points, the strongest plays are atheling, earthing, hearting, ingather, litharge, narghile, nargileh, and thirlage — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in earthling produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alright, healing, hearing, heating, lighten, lighter, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are alright, gahnite, halting, healing, hearing, heating, lathing, lighten, lighter, and relight — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling earthling turns up 81 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, gather, hating, length, and rating. For points, the strongest plays are alight, aright, gather, haeing, haling, hanger, haring, hating, hegari, hegira, hinger, length, nigher, and rehang — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earthling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alert, alien, alter, angel, anger, and angle. For points, the strongest plays are ahing, eight, garth, gerah, girth, grith, hinge, laigh, light, neigh, night, right, thang, thegn, and thing — 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 earthling produces 144 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, earn, gain, gate, girl, hail, and hair. For points, the strongest plays are argh, ghat, hang, and nigh — 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 earthling turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hag — 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earthling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, at, eh, ha, he, and hi. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and hi — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in earthling plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in earthling 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.
earthling 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 earthling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
earthling is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing earthling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earthling, haltering, and lathering, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from earthling 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 earthling produce 515 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 81 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 144 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.