longings needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
longings is the highest-scoring word from longings, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in longings — and it is longings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in longings produces 3 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 gosling, longing, and noggins, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling longings turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing. For points, the strongest plays are goings, noggin, and ogling — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with going and lions. For points, the strongest plays are going, gongs, and noggs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in longings produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gigs, lion and logs. For points, the strongest plays are gigs, gong, iggs, and nogg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling longings turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig, log and oil. For points, the strongest plays are gig and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in longings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in longings 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.
longings 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for longings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
longings is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing longings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is longings, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from longings 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 longings produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.