Hidden inside straining sit straining and trainings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 235 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
straining and trainings tie for the highest Scrabble score from straining at 10 points. The top 10 of 235 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in straining: one comes from rearranging its letters, and straining itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trainings. For points, the strongest plays are straining and trainings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in straining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with training. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including training, ingrains and rantings.
Rearranging the letters in straining produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raining, raising, ratings, and staring. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including raining, raising and ratings.
Unscrambling straining turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing, giants and grants. For points, 23 words tie at 7 points, including airing, giants and grants.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in straining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant and grant. For points, 29 words tie at 6 points, including gains, giant and grant.
Rearranging the letters in straining produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and arts. For points, 32 words tie at 5 points, including gain, nags and rags.
Unscrambling straining turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 14 words tie at 4 points, including gas, nag and rag.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in straining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in straining plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in straining 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.
straining 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 three senses for straining. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
straining is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing straining unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are straining and trainings, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from straining 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 straining produce 235 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.