Hidden inside likings sit likings and silking, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
likings and silking tie for the highest Scrabble score from likings at 12 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in likings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and likings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are likings and silking, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in likings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kings and links. For points, the strongest plays are ginks and kings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in likings produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, king and link. For points, the strongest plays are gink and king — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
10 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in likings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in likings 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.
likings 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 3-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 likings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
likings is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing likings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are likings and silking, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from likings 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 likings produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.