groundings needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 279 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
groundings is the highest-scoring word from groundings, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 279 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in groundings — and it is groundings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling groundings produces exactly one nine-letter word: grounding. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in groundings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rounding and sounding. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including rounding, sounding and grousing.
Rearranging the letters in groundings produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grounds, nursing, and undoing. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including donging, dugongs and dunging.
Unscrambling groundings turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with during, grinds and groins. For points, the strongest plays are dugong and gundog — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in groundings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing, drugs and going. For points, 16 words tie at 7 points, including doing, drugs and going.
Rearranging the letters in groundings produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with digs, dogs and drug. For points, 18 words tie at 6 points, including digs, dogs and drug.
Unscrambling groundings turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dog and dug. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dog and dug.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in groundings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, go and id.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in groundings plus one additional letter.
groundings 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 5-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 groundings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
groundings is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing groundings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is groundings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from groundings 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 groundings produce 279 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.