Hidden inside swiping sit swiping and wisping, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
swiping and wisping tie for the highest Scrabble score from swiping at 13 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in swiping: one comes from rearranging its letters, and swiping itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swiping. For points, the strongest plays are swiping and wisping — 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 swiping turns up 3 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: wiping, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swiping. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: swing and wings, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in swiping produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pigs, pins, sign, sing, spin, wigs, and wing. For points, the strongest plays are pwns 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 swiping turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pig, pin, sin, sip, wig, and win. For points, the strongest play is pwn — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swiping. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is pi — worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in swiping plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in swiping and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
swiping 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.
swiping is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing swiping unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are swiping and wisping, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from swiping 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 swiping produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.