Hidden inside lippings sit lippings and slipping, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lippings and slipping tie for the highest Scrabble score from lippings at 13 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in lippings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lippings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slipping. For points, the strongest plays are lippings and slipping — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lippings produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lipping, pipings, and sipping, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lippings. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are piing and pings, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lippings produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lips, pigs and pins. For points, the strongest play is pips — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lippings turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lip, pig and pin. For points, the strongest play is pip — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in lippings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lippings 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.
lippings 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
lippings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lippings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lippings and slipping, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lippings 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 lippings produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.