Hidden inside leanings sit eanlings and leanings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 220 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eanlings and leanings tie for the highest Scrabble score from leanings at 9 points. The top 10 of 220 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in leanings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and leanings 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 eanlings and leanings, 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 leanings produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaning and sealing. For points, the strongest plays are aneling, eanling, innages, leaning, leasing, lensing, lignans, linages, linsang, and sealing — 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 leanings turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels, angles, easing, insane, signal, and single. For points, the strongest plays are algins, aligns, angels, angles, easing, ensign, genial, gleans, ingles, innage, lasing, liangs, ligans, ligase, lignan, linage, lingas, saning, signal, silage, and single — 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 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leanings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, angel, angle, gains, lanes, and leans. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agile, algin, align, angel, angle, gains, gales, geans, glans, glean, glens, glias, ingle, liang, ligan, linga, lings, segni, sengi, sigla, signa, singe, slang, and sling — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in leanings produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, gain, gals, lane, lean, legs, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agin, egal, egis, engs, gaen, gaes, gain, gale, gals, gane, gean, gels, gens, gien, gies, gins, glen, glia, lags, lang, legs, ling, nags, negs, sage, sang, sign, sing, slag, and snag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling leanings turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gal, gas, leg, lie, nag, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, gae, gal, gan, gas, gel, gen, gie, gin, gis, lag, leg, nag, neg, sag, seg, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leanings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 leanings 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.
leanings 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 five senses for leanings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
leanings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leanings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eanlings and leanings, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leanings 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 leanings produce 220 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.