Hidden inside solving sit lovings and solving, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lovings and solving tie for the highest Scrabble score from solving at 11 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in solving: one comes from rearranging its letters, and solving itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with solving. For points, the strongest plays are lovings and solving — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling solving turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing and loving. For points, the strongest plays are loving and voling — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lions. For points, the strongest play is vlogs — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in solving produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lion, logs, long, oils, sign, sing, and soli. For points, the strongest plays are vigs, vlog, and vogs — each 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 solving turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with log, oil, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are vig and vog — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in solving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in solving plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in solving 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.
solving 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 one sense for solving. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
solving is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing solving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lovings and solving, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from solving 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 solving produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.