teachings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 557 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
teachings is the highest-scoring word from teachings, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 557 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in teachings — and it is teachings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teachings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheating and teaching. For points, the strongest plays are cheating, etchings, scathing, and teaching — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in teachings produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashing, casting, ceasing, changes, chasing, heating, and seating. For points, the strongest plays are cashing, cathing, changes, chasing, etching, gatches, ginches, gitches, and gnathic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling teachings turns up 90 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, agents, chains, change, cheats, easing, and eating. For points, the strongest plays are aching, change, changs, chings, eching, and gaches — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 140 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teachings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, cages, cents, chain, chase, chats, and cheat. For points, the strongest plays are chang, ching, gatch, ginch, and gitch — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in teachings produces 164 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ages, ants, cage, cans, case, and cash. For points, the strongest play is gach — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling teachings turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, ant, ash, ate, can, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, and ich — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teachings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in teachings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in teachings and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
teachings 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 three senses for teachings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
teachings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing teachings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is teachings, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from teachings 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 teachings produce 557 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 90 six-letter words, 140 five-letter words, 164 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.