Hidden inside hankering sit hankering and harkening, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hankering and harkening tie for the highest Scrabble score from hankering at 17 points. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in hankering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hankering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hankering and harkening, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hankering produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning and hearing. For points, the strongest plays are gherkin, hanking, and harking — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hankering turns up 22 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hanker, hankie, and harken, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hankering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, inner, and range. For points, the strongest plays are hiker and nikah — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hankering produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, earn, gain, hair, hang, hear, and hike. For points, the strongest plays are ankh, haik, hake, hank, hark, hike, and khan — 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 hankering turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, era, hen, and her. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hankering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, eh, ha, he, hi, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in hankering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hankering 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.
hankering 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 2-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 hankering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
hankering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hankering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hankering and harkening, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hankering 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 hankering produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.