yearnings needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 345 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yearnings is the highest-scoring word from yearnings, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 345 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in yearnings — and it is yearnings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearnings. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are resaying, synergia, and yearning, 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 yearnings produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, erasing, and insaner. For points, the strongest plays are syringa, syringe, yarning, and yeaning — each 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 yearnings turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, easing, greasy, insane, ranges, saying, and singer. For points, the strongest plays are anergy, grainy, granny, greasy, gynies, gyrase, raying, saying, and yagers — 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 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearnings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, angry, earns, gains, gayer, inner, and nines. For points, the strongest plays are angry, eying, gayer, ginny, grays, greys, gynie, gyres, rangy, yager, yages, yagis, and yangs — 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 yearnings produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, earn, ears, easy, eras, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are gays, gray, grey, gyre, gyri, sagy, yage, yagi, yags, and yang — 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 yearnings turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, any, are, aye, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are gay, gey, and yag — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yearnings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, ay, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in yearnings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yearnings and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
yearnings 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 yearnings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
yearnings is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yearnings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yearnings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yearnings 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 yearnings produce 345 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.