Hidden inside writings sit wristing and writings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wristing and writings tie for the highest Scrabble score from writings at 12 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in writings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and writings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with writings. For points, the strongest plays are wristing and writings — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in writings produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with writing. For points, the strongest plays are wirings, wisting, and writing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling writings turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rising and string. For points, the strongest plays are wiring, wising, witing, and wrings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in writings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rings, sting and swing. For points, the strongest plays are swing, twigs, wings, and wring — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in writings produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rigs, ring and sign. For points, the strongest plays are swig, twig, wigs, and wing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling writings turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, rig and sin. For points, the strongest play is wig — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in writings 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.
writings 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 writings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
writings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing writings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are wristing and writings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from writings 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 writings produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.