Hidden inside trollings sit strolling and trollings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 259 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
strolling and trollings tie for the highest Scrabble score from trollings at 10 points. The top 10 of 259 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in trollings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and trollings 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 strolling and trollings, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trollings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rollings, tollings, and trolling, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in trollings produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rolling and sorting. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including rolling, sorting and storing.
Unscrambling trollings turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grills, groins and losing. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including grills, groins and losing.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trollings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girls, grill and groin. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including girls, grill and groin.
Rearranging the letters in trollings produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girl, into and iron. For points, 29 words tie at 5 points, including girl, logs and long.
Unscrambling trollings turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, ill and its. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including got, log and rig.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trollings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in trollings 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.
trollings 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for trollings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
trollings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trollings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are strolling and trollings, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trollings 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 trollings produce 259 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.