Hidden inside sampling sit psalming and sampling, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
psalming and sampling tie for the highest Scrabble score from sampling at 13 points. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sampling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sampling 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 psalming and sampling, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sampling produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lamping, magilps, and palming, 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 sampling turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with signal. For points, the strongest plays are amping, glamps, and magilp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sampling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, lamps, mails, nails, pains, plain, and plans. For points, the strongest plays are gamps, gimps, and glamp — each 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 sampling produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, lamp, laps, lips, mail, main, and maps. For points, the strongest plays are gamp and gimp — 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 sampling turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, gal, gap, gas, lap, lip, and man. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sampling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, pa, 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 sampling 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.
sampling 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 5-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 sampling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
sampling is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sampling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are psalming and sampling, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sampling 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 sampling produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.