listings needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
listings is the highest-scoring word from listings, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in listings — and it is listings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in listings produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with listing. For points, the strongest plays are listing, silting, and tilings — 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 listings turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insist and stings. For points, the strongest plays are glints, isling, sigils, siting, slings, stings, and tiling — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in listings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lists, signs, sings, and sting. For points, the strongest plays are gilts, gists, glint, lings, sigil, signs, sings, sling, sting, and tings — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in listings produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with list, sign, sing, sins, sits, and tins. For points, the strongest plays are gilt, gins, gist, gits, ling, sign, sigs, sing, and ting — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling listings turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, lit, sin, sit, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are gin, gis, git, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in listings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — 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 listings 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.
listings 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 two senses for listings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
listings is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing listings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is listings, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from listings 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 listings produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.