Hidden inside trifling sit flirting and trifling, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
flirting and trifling tie for the highest Scrabble score from trifling at 12 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in trifling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and trifling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flirting. For points, the strongest plays are flirting and trifling — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in trifling produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lifting. For points, the strongest plays are fliting, lifting, rifling, and rifting — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling trifling turns up 6 six-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: filing and firing, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trifling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flirt. For points, the strongest plays are fling and grift — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in trifling produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gift, girl, lift, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are frig and gift — 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 trifling turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, lit, rig, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are fig and gif — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trifling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, and it. For points, the strongest play is if — worth 5 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 trifling 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.
trifling 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 trifling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
trifling is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trifling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are flirting and trifling, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trifling 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 trifling produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.