Hidden inside telling sit gillnet and telling, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gillnet and telling tie for the highest Scrabble score from telling at 8 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in telling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and telling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with telling. For points, the strongest plays are gillnet and telling — 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 telling turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gentil and tingle, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in telling. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glint, ingle, legit, and tinge, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in telling produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, line, tell, and till. For points, the strongest plays are gelt, gent, gien, gill, gilt, gite, glen, ling, and ting — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling telling turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, ill, leg, let, lie, lit, and net. For points, the strongest plays are eng, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, leg, neg, and teg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in telling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 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 telling 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.
telling 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for telling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
telling is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing telling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gillnet and telling, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from telling 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 telling produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.