Hidden inside ringing sit girning and ringing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
girning and ringing tie for the highest Scrabble score from ringing at 9 points. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in ringing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ringing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ringing. For points, the strongest plays are girning and ringing — 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 ringing produces exactly one five-letter word: iring. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ringing produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ring. For points, the strongest play is grig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ringing turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig and rig. For points, the strongest plays are gig and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ringing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 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 ringing 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.
ringing 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 ringing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ringing is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ringing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are girning and ringing, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ringing 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 ringing produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.