Hidden inside scanning sit cannings and scanning, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cannings and scanning tie for the highest Scrabble score from scanning at 11 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in scanning: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scanning 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 cannings and scanning, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scanning produces 2 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 canings and canning, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scanning turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are caning and casing, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scanning. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains. For points, the strongest play is acing — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scanning produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, gain, nags, sang, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are cigs and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scanning turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, gas, nag, and sin. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scanning. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in scanning plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in scanning 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.
scanning 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 two senses for scanning. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
scanning is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scanning unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cannings and scanning, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scanning 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 scanning produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.