Hidden inside sweeping sit sweeping and weepings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sweeping and weepings tie for the highest Scrabble score from sweeping at 14 points. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sweeping: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sweeping itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sweeping. For points, the strongest plays are sweeping and weepings — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sweeping produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weeping. For points, the strongest plays are spewing and weeping — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sweeping turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with peeing, seeing, and sewing. For points, the strongest plays are ngwees, sewing, swinge, and weeing — 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sweeping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genes, penes, penis, spine, sweep, swing, and swipe. For points, the strongest plays are sweep, swipe, weeps, and wipes — 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 sweeping produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, news, pees, pens, pies, pigs, and pins. For points, the strongest plays are pews, pwns, spew, weep, wipe, and wisp — 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 sweeping turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, new, pee, pen, pie, pig, and pin. For points, the strongest plays are pew and pwn — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sweeping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, in, is, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in sweeping plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sweeping 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.
sweeping 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 sweeping. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
sweeping is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sweeping unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sweeping and weepings, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sweeping 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 sweeping produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.