Hidden inside trailing sit ringtail, trailing, and trialing, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 145 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ringtail, trailing, and trialing tie for the highest Scrabble score from trailing at 9 points. The top 10 of 145 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in trailing: two come from rearranging its letters, and trailing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ringtail, trailing, and trialing, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in trailing produces 6 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 airting, intagli, lairing, railing, tailing, and tirling, 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 trailing turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing and rating. For points, the strongest plays are ailing, airing, artigi, gratin, nilgai, rating, riling, taring, tiling, and tiring — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trailing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant, grant, trail, train, and trial. For points, the strongest plays are algin, align, argil, atigi, garni, giant, glair, glint, gnarl, grail, grain, grant, iring, liang, ligan, linga, and tragi — 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 trailing produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, girl, liar, nail, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, gait, gilt, girl, girn, girt, glia, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, lang, ling, ragi, rang, ring, tang, ting, and trig — 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 trailing turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, art, gal, lit, nag, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are gal, gan, gar, gat, gin, git, lag, nag, rag, rig, and tag — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trailing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 trailing 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.
trailing 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 one sense for trailing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
trailing is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trailing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ringtail, trailing, and trialing, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trailing 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 trailing produce 145 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.