Hidden inside seeking sit seeking and skeeing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
seeking and skeeing tie for the highest Scrabble score from seeking at 12 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in seeking: one comes from rearranging its letters, and seeking itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seeking. For points, the strongest plays are seeking and skeeing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling seeking turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seeing. For points, the strongest plays are genies, seeing, and signee — 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seeking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with geeks, genes, kings, and knees. For points, the strongest plays are eking, geeks, ginks, and kings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in seeking produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with geek, gene, inks, king, knee, seek, and seen. For points, the strongest plays are geek, gink, kegs, king, and skeg — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling seeking turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, ink, see, sin, and ski. For points, the strongest play is keg — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seeking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and is. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 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 seeking 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.
seeking 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 two senses for seeking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
seeking is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing seeking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are seeking and skeeing, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from seeking 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 seeking produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.