Hidden inside triflings sit firstling and triflings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
firstling and triflings tie for the highest Scrabble score from triflings at 13 points. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in triflings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and triflings 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 firstling and triflings, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in triflings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flirting. For points, the strongest plays are flirting, riflings, stifling, and trifling — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in triflings produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lifting and listing. For points, the strongest plays are filings, firings, fisting, fliting, lifting, rifling, rifting, and sifting — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling triflings turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with filing, firing, flirts, rising, and string. For points, the strongest plays are filing, firing, flings, and grifts — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in triflings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with first, flirt, gifts, girls, lifts, rings, and sting. For points, the strongest plays are fling, frigs, gifts, and grift — 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 triflings produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fist, fits, gift, girl, lift, list, and rigs. For points, the strongest plays are figs, frig, gifs, and gift — 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 triflings turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, its, lit, rig, sin, sir, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are fig and gif — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in triflings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is if — worth 5 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 triflings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in triflings 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.
triflings 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 triflings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
triflings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing triflings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are firstling and triflings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from triflings 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 triflings produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.