standings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 190 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
standings is the highest-scoring word from standings, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 190 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in standings — and it is standings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling standings produces exactly one eight-letter word: standing. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in standings produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with datings. For points, the strongest plays are datings and sanding — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling standings turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assign, dating, giants, saints, stains, stands, and stings. For points, the strongest play is dating — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in standings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, saint, sands, signs, sings, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are dangs, dings, and gadis — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in standings produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants, digs, gain, nags, said, and sand. For points, the strongest plays are dags, dang, digs, ding, gadi, gads, and gids — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling standings turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, ant, ass, dig, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, and gid — each worth 5 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 standings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, gi, and id — each worth 3 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 standings 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.
standings 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 nine senses for standings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
standings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing standings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is standings, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from standings 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 standings produce 190 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.