goings needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
goings is the highest-scoring word from goings, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in goings — and it is goings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with going. For points, the strongest plays are going, gongs, and noggs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in goings produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gigs, sign, sing, and song. For points, the strongest plays are gigs, gong, iggs, and nogg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling goings turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are gig and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in goings and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
goings 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 four senses for goings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
goings is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing goings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is goings, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from goings 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 goings produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.