Hidden inside stealings sit slangiest, stealings, and tasseling, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 606 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
slangiest, stealings, and tasseling tie for the highest Scrabble score from stealings at 10 points. The top 10 of 606 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in stealings: two come from rearranging its letters, and stealings 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 slangiest, stealings, and tasseling, 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 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stealings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genitals and stealing. For points, the strongest plays are eastings, gainless, gelatins, genistas, genitals, giantess, glassine, glistens, lastings, leasings, saltings, sealings, seatings, singlets, slatings, sniglets, stealing, and taglines — each 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 stealings produces 61 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lasting, listens, sealing, seating, signals, singles, and teasing. For points, the strongest plays are ageists, aiglets, atingle, easting, eatings, elating, gelants, gelatin, gelatis, genista, genital, glassie, glisten, ingates, ingesta, ingests, lasting, leasing, legists, ligases, ligates, linages, sagiest, salting, sealing, seating, signals, signets, silages, singles, singlet, slating, sniglet, staling, stinges, tagines, tagline, tangles, teasing, and tingles — 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 stealings turns up 107 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, aisles, aliens, angels, angles, assign, and easing. For points, the strongest plays are ageist, agents, agists, aglets, aiglet, algins, aligns, angels, angles, angsts, assign, easing, eating, gainst, gaslit, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, giants, gleans, glints, glisse, gneiss, ingate, ingest, ingles, lasing, legist, legits, liangs, ligans, ligase, ligate, linage, lingas, sagest, sating, signal, signet, silage, singes, single, slangs, slings, stages, staigs, stangs, stinge, stings, tagine, tangle, tasing, tinges, and tingle — 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 154 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stealings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sails, saint, sales, salts, seals, seats, and signs. For points, the strongest plays are sages, segni, sengi, sigla, signa, signs, singe, sings, slags, slang, sling, snags, stage, stags, staig, stang, sting, tangs, aegis, agent, agile, agist, aglet, algin, align, angel, angle, angst, gains, gaits, gales, gases, gasts, gates, geans, gelts, gents, gests, getas, giant, gilts, gists, gites, glans, glass, glean, glens, glias, glint, gnats, ingle, legit, liang, ligan, linga, lings, tinge, 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 stealings produces 155 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, lane, last, late, lean, and legs. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agin, lags, lang, legs, ling, nags, negs, sage, sags, sang, segs, sign, sigs, sing, slag, snag, stag, egal, egis, engs, gaen, gaes, gain, gait, gale, gals, gane, gast, gate, gats, gean, gels, gelt, gens, gent, gest, geta, gets, gien, gies, gilt, gins, gist, gite, gits, glen, glia, gnat, tags, tang, tegs, 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 stealings turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, ass, ate, eat, gal, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, gae, gal, gan, gas, gat, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, gis, git, lag, leg, nag, neg, sag, seg, sig, tag, and teg — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stealings. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in stealings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stealings 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.
stealings 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 stealings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
stealings is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stealings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are slangiest, stealings, and tasseling, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stealings 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 stealings produce 606 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 61 seven-letter words, 107 six-letter words, 154 five-letter words, 155 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.