Hidden inside seedlings sit gelidness and seedlings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 286 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gelidness and seedlings tie for the highest Scrabble score from seedlings at 11 points. The top 10 of 286 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in seedlings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and seedlings 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 gelidness and seedlings, 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 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seedlings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are edginess and seedling, 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 seedlings produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designs, endless, legends, and singles. For points, the strongest plays are deleing, designs, dingles, engilds, legends, seeding, singled, and sledges — 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 seedlings turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, design, legend, seeing, sensed, signed, and single. For points, the strongest plays are deigns, design, dinges, dingle, engild, gledes, gleeds, glides, ledges, legend, sedges, sieged, signed, singed, and sledge — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seedlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dines, edges, genes, lends, lined, and lines. For points, the strongest plays are deign, dinge, dings, edges, gelds, gelid, gilds, glede, gleds, gleed, glide, ledge, and sedge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in seedlings produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, digs, dine, edge, else, and ends. For points, the strongest plays are digs, ding, edge, geds, geed, geld, gids, gied, gild, and gled — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling seedlings turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, gee, ids, led, and leg. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 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 seedlings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in seedlings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in seedlings 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.
seedlings 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for seedlings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
seedlings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing seedlings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gelidness and seedlings, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from seedlings 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 seedlings produce 286 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.