Hidden inside lickings sit lickings, sickling, and slicking, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lickings, sickling, and slicking tie for the highest Scrabble score from lickings at 15 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in lickings: two come from rearranging its letters, and lickings 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 lickings, sickling, and slicking, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lickings produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with licking and slicing. For points, the strongest plays are licking and sicking — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lickings turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with liking and skiing. For points, the strongest play is clinks — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lickings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kings, licks, and links. For points, the strongest plays are clink, licks, nicks, slick, and snick — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lickings produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, king, lick, link, sick, sign, and silk. For points, the strongest plays are icks, lick, nick, and sick — 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 lickings turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, sin, and ski. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lickings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is ki — 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 lickings 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.
lickings 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 two senses for lickings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
lickings is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lickings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lickings, sickling, and slicking, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lickings 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 lickings produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.