Hidden inside releasing sit algerines, releasing, and resealing, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 569 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
algerines, releasing, and resealing tie for the highest Scrabble score from releasing at 10 points. The top 10 of 569 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in releasing: two come from rearranging its letters, and releasing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with releasing. For points, the strongest plays are algerines, releasing, and resealing — 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 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in releasing. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are algerine, aligners, anergies, engrails, enlarges, ensilage, gaselier, generals, gesneria, gleaners, lasering, lineages, nargiles, realigns, reelings, signaler, and slangier, 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 releasing produces 41 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing, general, and sealing. For points, the strongest plays are aligner, anglers, earings, eelings, engrail, enlarge, enrages, erasing, gainers, galeres, general, glaires, gleaner, greisen, leasing, leering, linages, lineage, lingers, nargile, reagins, realign, reeling, regains, regales, reginae, reginal, reginas, sealing, searing, seeling, seringa, and slinger — 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 releasing turns up 113 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agrees, aliens, angels, angers, angles, easier, and easing. For points, the strongest plays are agenes, agrees, algins, aligns, angels, angers, angler, angles, argils, argles, eagers, eagles, eagres, earing, easing, eeling, enrage, gainer, galere, genera, genial, genies, genres, glaire, glairs, glares, gleans, gnarls, grails, grains, grease, greens, grilse, ingles, lagers, larges, lasing, legers, liangs, lieges, ligans, ligase, ligers, linage, lingas, linger, ragees, ranges, rasing, reagin, regain, regale, regies, regina, regnal, reigns, renigs, resign, sagier, sanger, seeing, senega, sering, signal, signee, signer, silage, singer, and single — 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 156 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in releasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, aisle, alien, angel, anger, angle, and earns. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, agene, agers, agile, aglee, agree, algin, align, angel, anger, angle, argil, argle, eager, eagle, eagre, egers, gains, gales, garni, geans, gears, genes, genie, genre, girls, girns, glair, glans, glare, glean, glees, glens, glias, gnarl, gnars, grail, grain, grans, green, grees, grins, ingle, lager, large, leger, leges, liang, liege, ligan, liger, linga, lings, ragee, rages, ragis, range, rangs, regal, reges, regie, regna, reign, renig, rings, sager, sarge, segni, sengi, serge, siege, sigla, signa, singe, slang, and sling — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in releasing produces 142 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, lane, lean, legs, liar, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, ages, agin, areg, lags, lang, legs, ling, nags, negs, rage, ragi, rags, rang, regs, rigs, ring, sage, sang, sign, sing, slag, snag, egal, eger, egis, engs, ergs, gaen, gaes, gain, gale, gals, gane, gars, gean, gear, gees, gels, gene, gens, gien, gies, gins, girl, girn, glee, glen, glia, gnar, gran, gree, and grin — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling releasing turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, era, gal, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, erg, gae, gal, gan, gar, gas, gee, gel, gen, gie, gin, gis, lag, leg, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, sag, seg, and sig — each worth 4 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 releasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 releasing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in releasing 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.
releasing 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 one sense for releasing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
releasing is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing releasing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are algerines, releasing, and resealing, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from releasing 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 releasing produce 569 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 41 seven-letter words, 113 six-letter words, 156 five-letter words, 142 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.