engravings needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 430 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
engravings is the highest-scoring word from engravings, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 430 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in engravings — and it is engravings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling engravings turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is engraving, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in engravings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is avenging, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in engravings produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, erasing, gravies, insaner, and serving. For points, the strongest plays are graving, venging, and verging — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling engravings turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, easing, graves, insane, naiver, navies, and ranges. For points, the strongest plays are ganevs, givens, givers, graven, graves, raving, rivage, saving, vegans, virgae, virgas, and visage — 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 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in engravings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, anger, earns, gains, gangs, given, and gives. For points, the strongest plays are ganev, given, giver, gives, grave, vangs, vegan, vegas, vigas, and virga — 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 engravings produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, earn, ears, eggs, eras, and gags. For points, the strongest plays are gave, give, vagi, vang, vega, viga, and vigs — 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 engravings turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, egg, era, and gag. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in engravings. 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.
engravings 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for engravings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
engravings is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing engravings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is engravings, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from engravings 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 engravings produce 430 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.