Hidden inside strikings sit skirtings and strikings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skirtings and strikings tie for the highest Scrabble score from strikings at 14 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in strikings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and strikings 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 skirtings and strikings, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strikings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with striking. For points, the strongest plays are griskins, skirting, and striking — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in strikings produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kissing, risking, and strings. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including kissing, risking and griskin.
Unscrambling strikings turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insist, rising and skiing. For points, the strongest plays are irking, kiting, skiing, and tsking — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strikings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kings, knits and rings. For points, the strongest plays are ginks and kings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in strikings produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, king and kiss. For points, the strongest plays are gink and king — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling strikings turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, its and kit. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including ink, kit and ski.
Swap a single tile in strikings 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.
strikings is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record four senses for strikings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
strikings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strikings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are skirtings and strikings, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strikings 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 strikings produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.