Hidden inside scraping sit carpings, scarping, and scraping, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 236 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
carpings, scarping, and scraping tie for the highest Scrabble score from scraping at 13 points. The top 10 of 236 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in scraping: two come from rearranging its letters, and scraping itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scraping. For points, the strongest plays are carpings, scarping, and scraping — 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 scraping produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scaring and sparing. For points, the strongest plays are carping, craping, pacings, scaping, and spacing — 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 scraping turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring, cigars, panics, racing, and spring. For points, the strongest plays are caping and pacing — 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 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scraping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cigar, craps, gains, grips, pains, pairs, and panic. For points, the strongest plays are aspic, capri, carpi, carps, craps, crips, crisp, panic, picas, scarp, scrap, scrip, and spica — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scraping produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, cans, caps, cars, crap, gain, and gaps. For points, the strongest plays are caps, carp, crap, crip, pacs, pica, and pics — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scraping turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, can, cap, car, gap, gas, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are cap, pac, and pic — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scraping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are 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 scraping 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.
scraping 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 scraping. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
scraping is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scraping unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are carpings, scarping, and scraping, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scraping 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 scraping produce 236 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.