Hidden inside tickings sit sticking and tickings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sticking and tickings tie for the highest Scrabble score from tickings at 15 points. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in tickings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tickings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sticking. For points, the strongest plays are sticking and tickings — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tickings produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ticking. For points, the strongest plays are sicking and ticking — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tickings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kings, knits and stick. For points, the strongest plays are nicks, snick, stick, and ticks — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tickings produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, king and kits. For points, the strongest plays are icks, nick, sick, and tick — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tickings turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, its and kit. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in tickings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tickings 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.
tickings 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 tickings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
tickings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tickings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sticking and tickings, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tickings 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 tickings produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.