Hidden inside singling sit singling and slinging, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
singling and slinging tie for the highest Scrabble score from singling at 10 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in singling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and singling 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 singling and slinging, 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 singling produces 4 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: signing and singing, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling singling turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lining. For points, the strongest plays are isling, lignin, and lining — 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in singling. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lings, sigil, and sling, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in singling produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gigs, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are gigs and iggs — 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 singling turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig and sin. For points, the strongest plays are gig and igg — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in singling. 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.
Swap a single tile in singling 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.
singling 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.
singling is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing singling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are singling and slinging, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from singling 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 singling produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.