Hidden inside leaking sit leaking and linkage, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leaking and linkage tie for the highest Scrabble score from leaking at 12 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in leaking: one comes from rearranging its letters, and leaking itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are leaking and linkage, 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 leaking turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is laking, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leaking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alike, angel, angle, and ankle. For points, the strongest plays are eking, kiang, and klieg — 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 leaking produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, king, lake, lane, leak, lean, and like. For points, the strongest plays are gank, 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 leaking turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gal, ink, leg, lie, and nag. For points, the strongest play is keg — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leaking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. 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.
Swap a single tile in leaking and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
leaking 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
leaking is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leaking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leaking and linkage, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leaking 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 leaking produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.