Hidden inside slipping sit lippings and slipping, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lippings and slipping tie for the highest Scrabble score from slipping at 13 points. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in slipping: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slipping itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slipping. For points, the strongest plays are lippings and slipping — 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 slipping produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lipping, pipings, and sipping, 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 slipping turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is piping, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slipping. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are piing and pings, each 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 slipping produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lips, pigs, pins, sign, sing, slip, and spin. For points, the strongest play is pips — 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 slipping turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lip, pig, pin, sin, and sip. For points, the strongest play is pip — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slipping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is pi — 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 slipping 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.
slipping 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for slipping. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
slipping is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slipping unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lippings and slipping, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slipping 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 slipping produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.