Hidden inside tampings sit stamping and tampings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 255 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stamping and tampings tie for the highest Scrabble score from tampings at 13 points. The top 10 of 255 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tampings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tampings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are stamping and tampings, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tampings produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tamping, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tampings turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giants, paints, and taping. For points, the strongest play is amping — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tampings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, giant and mints. For points, the strongest plays are gamps and gimps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tampings produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, ants and gain. For points, the strongest plays are gamp and gimp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tampings turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and gap. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tampings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in tampings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tampings 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.
tampings is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
tampings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tampings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are stamping and tampings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tampings 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 tampings produce 255 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.