Hidden inside killings sit killings and skilling, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
killings and skilling tie for the highest Scrabble score from killings at 13 points. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in killings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and killings 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 killings and skilling, 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 killings produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with killing. For points, the strongest plays are killing, likings, and silking — 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 killings turns up 3 six-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: liking and skiing, worth 11 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in killings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kills, kings, links, and skill. 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 killings produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, kill, king, link, sign, silk, and sing. 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 killings turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ill, 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 killings. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in killings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in killings 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.
killings 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 four senses for killings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
killings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing killings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are killings and skilling, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from killings 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 killings produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.