openings needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
openings is the highest-scoring word from openings, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in openings — and it is openings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in openings produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opening and pigeons. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including opening, pigeons and epigons.
Unscrambling openings turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pigeon, ponies, posing, and sponge. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including pigeon, posing and sponge.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in openings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nines, noise and opens. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including genip, gipon and oping.
Rearranging the letters in openings produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes and gone. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including pigs, gips and pegs.
Unscrambling openings turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, one and pen. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in openings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in openings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in openings 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.
openings 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 fourteen senses for openings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
openings is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing openings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is openings, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from openings 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 openings produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.