Hidden inside tackling sit tackling and talcking, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tackling and talcking tie for the highest Scrabble score from tackling at 15 points. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tackling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tackling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tackling. For points, the strongest plays are tackling and talcking — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tackling produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lacking and talking. For points, the strongest plays are calking, lacking, and tacking — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tackling turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting and taking. For points, the strongest play is caking — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tackling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant. For points, the strongest plays are clank and clink — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tackling produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, king and knit. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including lack, lick and tick.
Unscrambling tackling turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and can. For points, the strongest plays are ack and ick — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tackling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in tackling plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tackling 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.
tackling 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.
tackling is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tackling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are tackling and talcking, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tackling 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 tackling produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.