Hidden inside feeling sit feeling and fleeing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GINLEEF, FNGEELI or FELNIEG and you get the same 7 letters as FEELING: so the words from FEELING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
feeling and fleeing tie for the highest Scrabble score from feeling at 11 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in feeling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and feeling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: feeling and fleeing, worth 11 points apiece in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feeling. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are feign and fling, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in feeling produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feel, file and fine. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including feel, file and fine.
Unscrambling feeling turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee and gee. For points, the strongest plays are fig and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feeling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in feeling plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in feeling and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
feeling 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 six senses for feeling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
feeling is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing feeling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are feeling and fleeing, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from feeling 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 feeling produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.