Hidden inside rankings sit rankings and snarking, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 153 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rankings and snarking tie for the highest Scrabble score from rankings at 13 points. The top 10 of 153 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in rankings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rankings 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 rankings and snarking, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rankings produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are narking, ranking, and snaking, 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 rankings turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asking. For points, the strongest plays are asking, gaskin, kiangs, and raking — 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rankings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, kings, rains, and rings. 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 rankings produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, gain, inks, king, nags, rags, and rain. 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 rankings turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ask, gas, ink, nag, rag, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are ark, ask, ink, irk, kas, kin, kir, kis, ska, and ski — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rankings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. 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 rankings 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.
rankings 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 two senses for rankings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
rankings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rankings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rankings and snarking, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rankings 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 rankings produce 153 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.