Hidden inside staling sit lasting, salting, slating and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lasting, salting, slating and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from staling at 8 points. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in staling: three come from rearranging its letters, and staling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasting. For points, the strongest plays are lasting, salting, slating, and staling — 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 staling turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants and signal. For points, the strongest plays are algins, aligns, gainst, gaslit, giants, glints, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, sating, signal, and tasing — 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, nails, saint, stain, sting, and tails. For points, the strongest plays are agist, algin, align, angst, gains, gaits, giant, gilts, glans, glias, glint, gnats, liang, ligan, linga, lings, sigla, signa, slang, sling, staig, stang, sting, tangs, and tings — 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 staling produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, gain, gals, last, list, nags, and nail. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, gait, gals, gast, gats, gilt, gins, gist, gits, glia, gnat, lags, lang, ling, nags, sang, sign, sing, slag, snag, stag, tags, tang, and ting — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling staling turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, gal, gas, its, lit, nag, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ags, gal, gan, gas, gat, gin, gis, git, lag, nag, sag, sig, and tag — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in staling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
27 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in staling plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in staling 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.
staling 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.
staling is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing staling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lasting, salting, slating, and staling, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from staling 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 staling produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.