Hidden inside inklings sit inklings and slinking, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
inklings and slinking tie for the highest Scrabble score from inklings at 13 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in inklings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and inklings 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 inklings and slinking, 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 inklings produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sinking. For points, the strongest plays are inkings, inkling, kilning, likings, linking, silking, and sinking — 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 inklings turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liking, lining, and skiing. For points, the strongest plays are inking, liking, and skiing — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inklings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kings and links. For points, the strongest plays are ginks and kings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in inklings produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, king, link, sign, silk, sing, and sink. For points, the strongest plays are gink and king — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling inklings turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, sin, and ski. For points, the strongest plays are ilk, ink, kin, kis, and ski — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inklings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 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 inklings 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.
inklings 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 4-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 inklings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
inklings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing inklings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are inklings and slinking, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from inklings 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 inklings produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.