Hidden inside piercings sit piercings and precising, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
piercings and precising tie for the highest Scrabble score from piercings at 14 points. The top 10 of 240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in piercings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and piercings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are piercings and precising, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in piercings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crisping, piecings, and piercing, each 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 piercings produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inspire, princes, and spicier. For points, the strongest plays are creping, piecing, pricing, and spicing — each 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 piercings turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with prices, prince, rising, singer, and spring. For points, the strongest plays are cripes, pincer, precis, prices, prince, and spicer — 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 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in piercings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, genii, grips, nicer, penis, price, and rices. For points, the strongest plays are cripe, crips, crisp, epics, percs, price, scrip, sepic, and spice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in piercings produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with epic, grip, ices, nice, pens, pies, and pigs. For points, the strongest plays are ceps, crip, epic, pecs, perc, pice, pics, and spec — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling piercings turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, pen, per, pie, pig, pin, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are cep, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in piercings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest plays are pe 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in piercings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in piercings and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
piercings is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record two senses for piercings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
piercings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing piercings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are piercings and precising, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from piercings 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 piercings produce 240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.