Hidden inside sparingly sit raspingly and sparingly, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 407 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
raspingly and sparingly tie for the highest Scrabble score from sparingly at 15 points. The top 10 of 407 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in sparingly: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sparingly 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 raspingly and sparingly, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sparingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spraying. For points, the strongest plays are palsying, splaying, and spraying — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sparingly produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with playing, praying, and sparing. For points, the strongest plays are playing, praying, spangly, spaying, and springy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sparingly turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laying, lyings, paying, saying, signal, spring, and spying. For points, the strongest plays are paying, plying, prying, and spying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sparingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angry, gains, girls, grips, liars, lying, and nails. For points, the strongest plays are gipsy, grapy, and gripy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sparingly produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, laps, lays, liar, lips, nags, and nail. For points, the strongest plays are gapy and gyps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sparingly turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, any, gal, gap, gas, gay, and lap. For points, the strongest play is gyp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sparingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, ay, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in sparingly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sparingly 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.
sparingly 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 sparingly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
sparingly is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sparingly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are raspingly and sparingly, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sparingly 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 sparingly produce 407 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.