Hidden inside turnings sit turnings and unstring, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
turnings and unstring tie for the highest Scrabble score from turnings at 9 points. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in turnings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and turnings 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 turnings and unstring, 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 turnings produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nursing and turning. For points, the strongest plays are nursing, rusting, tunings, and turning — 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 turnings turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with string and tuning. For points, the strongest plays are grunts, string, strung, truing, tuning, ungirt, and unrigs — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turnings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rings, ruins, sting, stung, suing, turns, and units. For points, the strongest plays are girns, girts, grins, grist, grits, grunt, rings, ruing, rungs, sting, stung, suing, tings, trigs, trugs, tungs, unrig, and using — 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 turnings produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, guts, nuns, nuts, rigs, ring, and rugs. For points, the strongest plays are gins, girn, girt, gist, gits, gnus, grin, grit, guns, gust, guts, nugs, rigs, ring, rugs, rung, sign, sing, snug, sung, ting, trig, trug, tugs, and tung — 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 turnings turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, gut, its, nun, nut, rig, and rug. For points, the strongest plays are gin, gis, git, gnu, gun, gut, nug, rig, rug, sig, and tug — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in turnings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is gi — 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 turnings 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.
turnings 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 six senses for turnings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
turnings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing turnings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are turnings and unstring, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from turnings 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 turnings produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.