Hidden inside headings sit deashing and headings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deashing and headings tie for the highest Scrabble score from headings at 13 points. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in headings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and headings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deashing and headings, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in headings produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with heading. For points, the strongest plays are dashing, gnashed, heading, and shading — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling headings turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design, easing, gained, hanged, shined, and signed. For points, the strongest plays are gashed, hading, hanged, hinged, nighed, and sighed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in headings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dines, gains, hands, hangs, heads, and hides. For points, the strongest plays are ahing, ashed, dashi, deash, deshi, gnash, hades, hands, hangs, heads, hides, hinds, hinge, neigh, nighs, sadhe, sangh, shade, shend, shied, and sidhe — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in headings produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, aids, dies, digs, dine, and dish. For points, the strongest plays are ahed, dahs, dash, dish, edhs, gash, ghis, hade, haed, hags, hand, hang, head, hide, hied, hind, nigh, shad, shag, shed, sidh, and sigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling headings turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, aid, and, ash, die, and dig. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, ghi, had, hag, and hid — each worth 7 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 headings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, an, as, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 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 headings and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
headings 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for headings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
headings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing headings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deashing and headings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from headings 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 headings produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.