Hidden inside waling sit lawing and waling, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lawing and waling tie for the highest Scrabble score from waling at 10 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in waling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and waling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lawing and waling, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waling. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are awing and wigan, 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 waling produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, lawn, nail, and wing. For points, the strongest plays are gnaw and wing — 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 waling turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gal, law, nag, wig, and win. For points, the strongest plays are wag and wig — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in waling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, aw, and in. For points, the strongest play is aw — worth 5 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 waling and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
waling 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.
waling is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing waling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lawing and waling, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from waling 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 waling produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.