hankerings needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 534 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hankerings is the highest-scoring word from hankerings, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 534 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in hankerings — and it is hankerings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hankerings turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hankering, harkening, kashering, and shrinkage, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hankerings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearings and sneaking. For points, the strongest plays are gherkins, shanking, and sharking — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hankerings produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, erasing, hearing, insaner, shaking, and sharing. For points, the strongest plays are gherkin, hanking, harking, shaking, and skreigh — 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 hankerings turns up 85 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, asking, easing, insane, ranges, shaken, and shrank. For points, the strongest play is skeigh — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 126 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hankerings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, earns, gains, hairs, hangs, hears, and hikes. For points, the strongest plays are ankhs, haiks, hakes, hanks, harks, hiker, hikes, khans, knish, nikah, shake, shank, shark, sheik, and shirk — 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 hankerings produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, argh, earn, ears, eras, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are ankh, haik, hake, hank, hark, hike, khan, and khis — 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 hankerings turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ash, ask, ear, and era. 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hankerings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, eh, ha, he, and hi. 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.
hankerings is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for hankerings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
hankerings is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hankerings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hankerings, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hankerings 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 hankerings produce 534 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 85 six-letter words, 126 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.