fondlings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fondlings is the highest-scoring word from fondlings, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in fondlings — and it is fondlings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fondlings produces exactly one eight-letter word: fondling. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fondlings produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with folding. For points, the strongest plays are folding and fonding — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fondlings turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing. For points, the strongest plays are flings, flongs, gonifs, and infold — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fondlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing, finds and folds. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including finds, folds and golfs.
Rearranging the letters in fondlings produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with digs, dogs and find. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including find, fogs and fold.
Unscrambling fondlings turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dog and fog. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including fog, dif and fid.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fondlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, the strongest plays are if and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in fondlings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in fondlings and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
fondlings 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 one sense for fondlings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
fondlings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fondlings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fondlings, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fondlings 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 fondlings produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.