Hidden inside takings sit skating, staking, takings and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
skating, staking, takings and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from takings at 12 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in takings: three come from rearranging its letters, and takings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with skating. For points, the strongest plays are skating, staking, takings, and tasking — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling takings turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asking, giants, and taking. For points, the strongest plays are asking, gaskin, kiangs, taking, and tsking — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in takings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant, kings, knits, saint, stain, and stank. For points, the strongest plays are ganks, ginks, kiang, and kings — 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 takings produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, gain, inks, king, kits, knit, and nags. For points, the strongest plays are gank, gink, king, and skag — 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 takings turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ask, gas, ink, its, kit, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are ask, ink, kas, kat, kin, kis, kit, ska, ski, and tsk — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in takings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 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 takings 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.
takings 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 2-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 takings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
takings is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing takings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are skating, staking, takings, and tasking, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from takings 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 takings produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.