Hidden inside leaping sit leaping and pealing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leaping and pealing tie for the highest Scrabble score from leaping at 10 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in leaping: one comes from rearranging its letters, and leaping itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaping. For points, the strongest plays are leaping and pealing — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling leaping turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is paling, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leaping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, angel, angle, plain, and plane. For points, the strongest plays are aping, genip, and plage — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in leaping produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, lane, lean, leap, line, nail, and page. For points, the strongest plays are gape, page, pang, peag, and ping — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling leaping turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ape, gal, gap, lap, leg, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leaping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 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 leaping 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.
leaping 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 leaping. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
leaping is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leaping unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leaping and pealing, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leaping 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 leaping produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.