talking needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GNIKLAT, KALINGT or LITKANG and you get the same 7 letters as TALKING: so the words from TALKING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
talking is the highest-scoring word from talking, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in talking — and it is talking itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in talking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant. For points, the strongest play is kiang — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in talking produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, king and knit. For points, the strongest plays are gank, gink, and king — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling talking turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, gal and ink. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including ink, kit and ilk.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in talking. 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.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in talking plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in talking 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.
talking 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 talking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
talking is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing talking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is talking, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from talking 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 talking produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.