samplings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
samplings is the highest-scoring word from samplings, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in samplings — and it is samplings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in samplings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are psalming, sampling, and spasming, 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 samplings produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with passing and signals. For points, the strongest plays 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 samplings turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assign and 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 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in samplings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, glass, lamps, mails, nails, pains, and plain. 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 samplings produces 112 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 samplings turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ass, gal, gap, gas, lap, and lip. 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 samplings. 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 samplings 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.
samplings 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 samplings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
samplings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing samplings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is samplings, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from samplings 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 samplings produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.