Hidden inside totalling sit allotting and totalling, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allotting and totalling tie for the highest Scrabble score from totalling at 10 points. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in totalling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and totalling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allotting and totalling, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling totalling produces exactly one eight-letter word: totaling. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in totalling produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antilog, galliot, glottal, lotting, and tolling, 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 totalling turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gallon. For points, the strongest plays are atting, galiot, gallon, gitano, latigo, tiglon, toling, and toting — 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in totalling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, giant, tango, and total. For points, the strongest plays are algin, align, along, anglo, giant, glial, glint, gloat, gonia, gotta, ingot, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, logan, logia, login, tango, tigon, and tonga — 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 totalling produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, goal, goat, into, lion, loan, and long. For points, the strongest plays are agin, agio, agon, gain, gait, gall, gaol, gill, gilt, glia, gnat, goal, goat, lang, ling, long, tang, ting, toga, and tong — 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 totalling turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, all, ant, gal, got, ill, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are ago, gal, gan, gat, gin, git, goa, got, lag, log, nag, nog, tag, and tog — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in totalling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in totalling plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in totalling and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
totalling 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.
totalling is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing totalling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allotting and totalling, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from totalling 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 totalling produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.