Hidden inside screening sit screening and secerning, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 183 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
screening and secerning tie for the highest Scrabble score from screening at 12 points. The top 10 of 183 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in screening: one comes from rearranging its letters, and screening itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are screening and secerning, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in screening. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is generics, 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 screening produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with engines and sincere. For points, the strongest plays are censing, cringes, and generic — 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 screening turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with engine, nieces, screen, seeing, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are cering and cringe — 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 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in screening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cries, genes, green, inner, nicer, niece, and nines. For points, the strongest play is genic — 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 screening produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, ices, nice, nine, rice, rigs, and ring. For points, the strongest play is cigs — 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 screening turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, ice, rig, see, sin, and sir. 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 screening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in screening plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in screening 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.
screening 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 four senses for screening. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
screening is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing screening unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are screening and secerning, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from screening 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 screening produce 183 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.