fingerings 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, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fingerings is the highest-scoring word from fingerings, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in fingerings — and it is fingerings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fingerings turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fingering and fringings, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fingerings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are feigning and fringing, each 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 fingerings produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fingers, ringing, signing, and singing. For points, the strongest plays are fenings, fingers, finings, firings, and fringes — 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 fingerings turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finger, firing, griefs, rising, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are feigns, fening, finger, fining, firing, friges, fringe, and griefs — 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fingerings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, fires, fries, genii, grief, inner, and nines. For points, the strongest plays are feign, frigs, and grief — 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 fingerings produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eggs, fine, fire, gigs, nine, rigs, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are figs, frig, 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 fingerings turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, gig, rig, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fingerings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, 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 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in fingerings plus one additional letter.
fingerings 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for fingerings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
fingerings is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fingerings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fingerings, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fingerings 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 fingerings produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.