Hidden inside welkins sit welkins and winkles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
welkins and winkles tie for the highest Scrabble score from welkins at 14 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in welkins: one comes from rearranging its letters, and welkins itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are welkins and winkles, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling welkins 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 welkin and winkle, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in welkins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with likes, lines and links. For points, the strongest plays are lewks, swink, and winks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in welkins produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, knew and lies. For points, the strongest plays are knew, lewk, skew, and wink — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling welkins turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, lie and new. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including ink, ski and elk.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in welkins. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, in, is, and we. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in welkins plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in welkins 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.
welkins 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 2-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 welkins. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
welkins is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing welkins unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are welkins and winkles, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from welkins 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 welkins produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.