Hidden inside paging sit gaping and paging, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gaping and paging tie for the highest Scrabble score from paging at 10 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in paging: one comes from rearranging its letters, and paging itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gaping and paging, 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 paging. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging. For points, the strongest play is aping — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in paging produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gang, and pain. For points, the strongest plays are pang and ping — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling paging turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gag, gap, gig, nag, nap, pan, and pig. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, and pig — each worth 6 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 paging. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pi — each worth 4 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 paging 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.
paging 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 two senses for paging. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
paging is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing paging unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gaping and paging, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from paging 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 paging produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.