Hidden inside scaring sit arcings, carings, racings and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arcings, carings, racings and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from scaring at 10 points. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in scaring: four come from rearranging its letters, and scaring itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scaring. For points, the strongest plays are arcings, carings, racings, sacring, and scaring — 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 scaring turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring, cigars, and racing. For points, the strongest plays are arcing, caring, casing, cigars, and racing — 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scaring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cigar, gains, rains, and rings. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cigar, crags, and scrag — each 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 scaring produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, cans, cars, gain, nags, rags, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are cigs, crag, 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 scaring turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, can, car, gas, nag, rag, and ran. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scaring. 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.
Swap a single tile in scaring 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.
scaring 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.
scaring is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scaring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arcings, carings, racings, sacring, and scaring, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scaring 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 scaring produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.