plantings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 331 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
plantings is the highest-scoring word from plantings, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 331 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in plantings — and it is plantings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plantings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with planting. For points, the strongest plays are pantsing, planting, platings, and stapling — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in plantings produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasting. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including lapsing, palings and panting.
Unscrambling plantings turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants, paints and plants. For points, the strongest plays are paling, pinang, and taping — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plantings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant and nails. For points, the strongest plays are aping, pangs, pings, and spang — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in plantings produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, laps and last. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including pigs, gaps and pang.
Unscrambling plantings turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, gal and gap. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plantings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are pa and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in plantings 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.
plantings 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for plantings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
plantings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing plantings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is plantings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from plantings 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 plantings produce 331 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.