Hidden inside refinings sit infringes and refinings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
infringes and refinings tie for the highest Scrabble score from refinings at 13 points. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in refinings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refinings 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 infringes and refinings, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refinings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are infringe and refining, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in refinings produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fingers. For points, the strongest plays are fenings, fingers, finings, firings, and fringes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling refinings turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finger, firing, griefs, rising, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are feigns, fening, finger, fining, firing, friges, fringe, and griefs — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refinings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, fires, fries, genii, grief, inner, and nines. For points, the strongest plays are feign, frigs, and grief — 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 refinings produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire, nine, rigs, ring, rise, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are figs, frig, and gifs — 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 refinings turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rig, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are fig and gif — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refinings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 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 refinings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in refinings 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.
refinings 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 one sense for refinings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
refinings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refinings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are infringes and refinings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refinings 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 refinings produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.