thanksgiving needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 24 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 398 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
thanksgiving is the highest-scoring word from thanksgiving, worth 24 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 398 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in thanksgiving — and it is thanksgiving itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 24 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thanksgiving turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is knighting, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thanksgiving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stinging, stinking, thanking, and thinking. For points, the strongest plays are shanking, thanking, and thinking — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in thanksgiving produces 52 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gaining, hanging and knights. For points, the strongest play is knavish — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thanksgiving turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asking, giants and giving. For points, the strongest plays are hiking, knight, and viking — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thanksgiving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, gains and gangs. For points, 13 words tie at 12 points, including thank, think and ankhs.
Rearranging the letters in thanksgiving produces 115 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, gags and gain. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including ankh, haik and hank.
Unscrambling thanksgiving turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ash and ask. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thanksgiving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 thirteen-letter word can be made using all the letters in thanksgiving plus one additional letter.
thanksgiving 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 two senses for thanksgiving. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 24 points on a Scrabble board:
thanksgiving is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thanksgiving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is thanksgiving, worth 24 points in Scrabble, and no other word from thanksgiving 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 thanksgiving produce 398 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 52 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 115 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.