Hidden inside losing sit lingos, logins, losing and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 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.
lingos, logins, losing and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from losing at 7 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in losing: three come from rearranging its letters, and losing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing. For points, the strongest plays are lingos, logins, losing, and soling — 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in losing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lions. For points, the strongest plays are lingo, lings, login, longs, and sling — 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 losing produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lion, logs, long, oils, sign, sing, and soli. For points, the strongest plays are gins, ling, logs, long, nogs, sign, sing, slog, snog, and song — 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 losing turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with log, oil, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are gin, gis, gos, log, nog, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in losing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each 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 losing and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
losing 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.
losing is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing losing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lingos, logins, losing, and soling, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from losing 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 losing produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.