Hidden inside tailing sit intagli and tailing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intagli and tailing tie for the highest Scrabble score from tailing at 8 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tailing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tailing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are intagli and tailing, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tailing turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ailing, nilgai, and tiling, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant. For points, the strongest plays are algin, align, atigi, giant, glint, liang, ligan, and linga — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tailing produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, nail, and tail. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, gait, gilt, glia, gnat, lang, ling, tang, and ting — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tailing turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, gal, lit, nag, tag, tan, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are gal, gan, gat, gin, git, lag, nag, and tag — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tailing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in tailing 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.
tailing 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 one sense for tailing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tailing is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tailing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are intagli and tailing, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tailing 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 tailing produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.