Hidden inside timings sit misting, smiting, and timings, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
misting, smiting, and timings tie for the highest Scrabble score from timings at 10 points. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in timings: two come from rearranging its letters, and timings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with timings. For points, the strongest plays are misting, smiting, and timings — each 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 timings turns up 2 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: timing, worth 9 points 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 timings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mints and sting. For points, the strongest plays are minis, mints, and mitis — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in timings produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mint, sign, sing, and tins. For points, the strongest play is migs — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling timings turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, sin, sit, and tin. For points, the strongest play is mig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in timings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is mi — worth 4 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 timings 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.
timings 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 timings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
timings is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing timings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are misting, smiting, and timings, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from timings 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 timings produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.