Hidden inside tooling sit looting and tooling, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
looting and tooling tie for the highest Scrabble score from tooling at 8 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tooling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tooling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are looting and tooling, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tooling. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glint, igloo, ingot and 5 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tooling produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, lion and long. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including long, gilt and goon.
Unscrambling tooling turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goo, got and lit. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including goo, got and log.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tooling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and it. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tooling plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tooling 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.
tooling 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.
tooling is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tooling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are looting and tooling, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tooling 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 tooling produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.