pickings needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pickings is the highest-scoring word from pickings, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in pickings — and it is pickings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pickings produces 5 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: picking, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pickings turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with skiing. For points, the strongest play is piking — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pickings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kings and picks. For points, the strongest play is picks — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pickings produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, king, pick, pigs, pink, pins, and sick. For points, the strongest play is pick — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pickings turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, pig, pin, sin, sip, and ski. For points, the strongest plays are ick and kip — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pickings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in pickings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pickings 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.
pickings 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 pickings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
pickings is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pickings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pickings, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pickings 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 pickings produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.