Hidden inside pleasing sit elapsing and pleasing, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 361 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elapsing and pleasing tie for the highest Scrabble score from pleasing at 11 points. The top 10 of 361 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in pleasing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pleasing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elapsing and pleasing, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pleasing produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with leaping and sealing. For points, the strongest plays are lapsing, leaping, palings, pealing, sapling, spaeing, spangle, and spinage — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pleasing turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aliens, angels, angles, easing, planes, signal, and single. For points, the strongest plays are genips, paling, and plages — 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 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pleasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alien, angel, angle, gains, lanes, and leans. For points, the strongest plays are aping, gapes, genip, pages, pangs, peags, pings, plage, and spang — each 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 pleasing produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, apes, lane, laps, lean, leap, and legs. For points, the strongest plays are page, pang, peag, pegs, pigs, ping, gape, gaps, gasp, and gips — 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 pleasing turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ape, gal, gap, gas, lap, and leg. For points, the strongest plays are gap, gip, peg, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pleasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, 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.
Swap a single tile in pleasing 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.
pleasing 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 three senses for pleasing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pleasing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pleasing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elapsing and pleasing, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pleasing 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 pleasing produce 361 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.