Hidden inside hinges sit hinges and neighs, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hinges and neighs tie for the highest Scrabble score from hinges at 10 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in hinges: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hinges itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hinges and neighs, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hinges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shine. For points, the strongest plays are hinge, neigh, and nighs — 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 hinges produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hens, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are ghis, nigh, 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 hinges turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, his, she, and sin. For points, the strongest play is ghi — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hinges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, in, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, 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 hinges 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.
hinges 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 hinges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hinges is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hinges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hinges and neighs, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hinges 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 hinges produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.