failings needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
failings is the highest-scoring word from failings, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in failings — and it is failings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in failings produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with failing and sailing. For points, the strongest plays are failing and filings — 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 failings turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with filing, finals, and signal. For points, the strongest plays are fagins, filing, and flings — 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in failings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fails, final, flags, gains, and nails. For points, the strongest plays are fagin, fangs, flags, and fling — 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 failings produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fail, fans, flag, gain, gals, nags, and nail. For points, the strongest plays are fags, fang, figs, flag, and gifs — 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 failings turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fan, gal, gas, nag, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, and gif — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in failings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, if, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are fa and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in failings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in failings 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.
failings 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 3-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 failings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
failings is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing failings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is failings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from failings 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 failings produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.