Hidden inside washing sit shawing and washing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shawing and washing tie for the highest Scrabble score from washing at 14 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in washing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and washing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with washing. For points, the strongest plays are shawing and washing — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling washing turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hawing and whangs, 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in washing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, hangs, swing, and wings. For points, the strongest plays are whang and whigs — 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 washing produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, hang, nags, sang, sign, sing, and swan. For points, the strongest play is whig — 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 washing turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, gas, has, his, nag, nah, and saw. For points, the strongest plays are haw and wha — each worth 9 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 washing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, aw, ha, hi, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ah, aw, ha, hi, and sh — each 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 washing and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
washing 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 1-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 washing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
washing is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing washing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shawing and washing, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from washing 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 washing produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.