Hidden inside endings sit endings and sending, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
endings and sending tie for the highest Scrabble score from endings at 9 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in endings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and endings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: endings and sending, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling endings turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design, ending, and signed. For points, the strongest plays are deigns, design, dinges, ending, ginned, signed, and singed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in endings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines and nines. For points, the strongest plays are deign, dinge, and dings — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in endings produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, digs, dine, ends, nine, send, and side. For points, the strongest plays are digs, ding, geds, gids, and gied — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling endings turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, ids, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in endings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — 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 endings and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
endings 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 five senses for endings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
endings is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing endings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are endings and sending, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from endings 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 endings produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.