Hidden inside strolling sit strolling and trollings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 259 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strolling and trollings tie for the highest Scrabble score from strolling at 10 points. The top 10 of 259 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in strolling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and strolling 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 strolling and trollings, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strolling. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rollings, tollings, and trolling, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in strolling produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rolling and sorting. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including rolling, sorting and storing.
Unscrambling strolling turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grills, groins and losing. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including grills, groins and losing.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strolling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girls, grill and groin. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including girls, grill and groin.
Rearranging the letters in strolling produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girl, into and iron. For points, 29 words tie at 5 points, including girl, logs and long.
Unscrambling strolling turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, ill and its. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including got, log and rig.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strolling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in strolling 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.
strolling 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.
strolling is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strolling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are strolling and trollings, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strolling 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 strolling produce 259 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, 30 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.