Hidden inside ranking sit narking and ranking, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
narking and ranking tie for the highest Scrabble score from ranking at 12 points. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in ranking: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ranking itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are narking and ranking, 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 ranking produces exactly one six-letter word: raking. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ranking. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is kiang, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ranking produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, king, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are gank, gink, and king — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ranking turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ink, nag, rag, ran, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are ark, ink, irk, kin, and kir — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ranking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 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 ranking and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
ranking 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 3-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 ranking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ranking is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ranking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are narking and ranking, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ranking 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 ranking produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.