Hidden inside leavings sit leavings and sleaving, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 320 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leavings and sleaving tie for the highest Scrabble score from leavings at 12 points. The top 10 of 320 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in leavings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and leavings 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 leavings and sleaving, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in leavings produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaving and sealing. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including leaving, glaives and salving.
Unscrambling leavings turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels and angles. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including saving, vegans and ganevs.
There are 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leavings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien and alive. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including given, gives and vegan.
Rearranging the letters in leavings produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, evil and gain. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including gave, give and vagi.
Unscrambling leavings turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gal and gas. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leavings. 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.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in leavings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in leavings 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.
leavings 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.
leavings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leavings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leavings and sleaving, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leavings 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 leavings produce 320 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.