Hidden inside earthlings sit earthlings and slathering, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1328 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earthlings and slathering tie for the highest Scrabble score from earthlings at 14 points. The top 10 of 1328 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in earthlings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and earthlings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are earthlings and slathering, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling earthlings turns up 17 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with triangles. For points, the strongest plays are ashlering, athelings, earthling, ghastlier, haltering, hangriest, ingathers, lathering, litharges, narghiles, nargilehs, shearling, and thirlages — 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 70 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earthlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altering, angriest, genitals, hearings, lightens, relating, and slighter. For points, the strongest plays are atheling, earthing, gahnites, healings, hearings, hearsing, hearting, heatings, ingather, lathings, leashing, lightens, lighters, litharge, narghile, nargileh, relights, ringhals, sharting, shealing, shearing, shingler, slighter, thirlage, and trashing — 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 earthlings produces 167 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alright, english, erasing, gathers, healing, hearing, and heating. For points, the strongest plays are alights, alright, english, gahnite, garnish, gathers, halting, hangers, hasting, healing, hearing, heating, hegaris, hegiras, hingers, largish, lashing, lathing, lengths, lighten, lighter, nighest, rehangs, relight, resight, sharing, shingle, sighter, sleight, and stengah — 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 earthlings turns up 273 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, alerts, aliens, alters, angels, angers, and angles. For points, the strongest plays are alight, aright, ashing, eights, garish, garths, gasher, gather, geisha, gerahs, girths, griths, haeing, haling, hanger, haring, hating, hegari, hegira, hinger, hinges, laighs, length, lights, neighs, nigher, nights, rehang, rights, sigher, sleigh, slight, thangs, thegns, and things — 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 342 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earthlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aisle, alert, alien, alter, angel, and anger. For points, the strongest plays are ahing, eight, garth, gerah, ghast, ghats, girsh, girth, gnash, grith, hangs, hinge, sangh, sight, laigh, light, neigh, nighs, 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 earthlings produces 295 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, argh, arts, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are argh, gash, ghat, ghis, hags, hang, nigh, shag, and sigh — 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 earthlings turns up 130 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ash, and ate. 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 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earthlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in earthlings plus one additional letter.
earthlings 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 earthlings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
earthlings is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing earthlings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earthlings and slathering, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from earthlings 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 earthlings produce 1328 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 17 nine-letter words, 70 eight-letter words, 167 seven-letter words, 273 six-letter words, 342 five-letter words, 295 four-letter words, 130 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.