Hidden inside stalking sit stalking and talkings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stalking and talkings tie for the highest Scrabble score from stalking at 13 points. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in stalking: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stalking itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stalking and talkings, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stalking produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasting, skating, and talking. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including skating, talking and lakings.
Unscrambling stalking turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asking, giants, signal, and taking. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including asking, taking and gaskin.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stalking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant and kings. For points, the strongest plays are ganks, ginks, kiang, and kings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stalking produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, gain and gals. For points, the strongest plays are gank, gink, king, and skag — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stalking turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ask and gal. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ink and kit.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stalking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in stalking plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stalking 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.
stalking 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 two senses for stalking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
stalking is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stalking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stalking and talkings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stalking 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 stalking produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.