Hidden inside leaving sit leaving and vealing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leaving and vealing tie for the highest Scrabble score from leaving at 11 points. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in leaving: one comes from rearranging its letters, and leaving itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaving. For points, the strongest plays are leaving and vealing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling leaving turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glaive, laving, and vagile, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leaving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alive, angel, angle, given, naive, and vegan. For points, the strongest plays are ganev, gavel, given, and vegan — 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 leaving produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evil, gain, gave, give, lane, lean, and line. For points, the strongest plays are gave, give, vagi, vang, vega, and viga — 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 leaving turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gal, leg, lie, nag, and van. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leaving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. 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 leaving 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.
leaving 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 leaving. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
leaving is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leaving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leaving and vealing, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leaving 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 leaving produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.