Hidden inside slaking sit lakings and slaking, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lakings and slaking tie for the highest Scrabble score from slaking at 12 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in slaking: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slaking itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lakings and slaking, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling slaking turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asking and signal. For points, the strongest plays are asking, gaskin, kiangs, and laking — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slaking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, kings, links, and nails. For points, the strongest plays are ganks, ginks, kiang, and kings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in slaking produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gals and inks. For points, the strongest plays are gank, gink, king, and skag — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling slaking turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, gal and gas. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ink and ski.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slaking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in slaking plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in slaking 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.
slaking 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.
slaking is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slaking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lakings and slaking, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slaking 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 slaking produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.