Hidden inside offings sit goniffs and offings, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
goniffs and offings tie for the highest Scrabble score from offings at 14 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in offings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and offings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are goniffs and offings, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling offings turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are goniff and offing, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in offings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sniff. For points, the strongest plays are niffs and sniff — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in offings produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fogs, sign, sing, and song. For points, the strongest plays are niff and offs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling offings turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fog, off, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are iff and off — each worth 9 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 offings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, if, in, is, no, of, and on. For points, the strongest plays are if and of — each worth 5 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 offings 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.
offings 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 2-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 offings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
offings is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing offings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are goniffs and offings, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from offings 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 offings produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.