Hidden inside loving sit loving and voling, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loving and voling tie for the highest Scrabble score from loving at 10 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in loving: one comes from rearranging its letters, and loving itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loving. For points, the strongest plays are loving and voling — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loving. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lingo and login, 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 loving produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lion and long. For points, the strongest play is vlog — 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 loving turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with log and oil. For points, the strongest plays are vig and vog — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, and on. 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 loving 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.
loving 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 4-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 loving. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
loving is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing loving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are loving and voling, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from loving 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 loving produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.