Hidden inside sounding sit sounding and undoings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sounding and undoings tie for the highest Scrabble score from sounding at 10 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sounding: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sounding itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sounding. For points, the strongest plays are sounding and undoings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sounding produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with undoing. For points, the strongest plays are dousing, guidons, and undoing — 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 sounding turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with unions. For points, the strongest plays are dingos, dingus, doings, dosing, guidon, and sundog — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sounding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing, sound, suing, union, and using. For points, the strongest plays are dingo, dings, doing, dongs, dungs, and guids — 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 sounding produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with digs, dogs, gods, guns, nuns, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are digs, ding, dogs, dong, dugs, dung, gids, gods, and guid — 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 sounding turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dog, dug, god, gun, ids, and nun. For points, the strongest plays are dig, dog, dug, gid, and god — 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 sounding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, id, in, is, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are do, gi, go, id, and od — 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 sounding 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.
sounding 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for sounding. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
sounding is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sounding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sounding and undoings, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sounding 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 sounding produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.