drinking needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drinking is the highest-scoring word from drinking, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in drinking — and it is drinking itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drinking produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dinking and dirking, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling drinking turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dining and riding. For points, the strongest play is diking — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drinking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drink and grind. For points, the strongest play is drink — 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 drinking produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kind, king, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are dink, dirk, gink, kind, and king — 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 drinking turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, ink, kid, rid, and rig. For points, the strongest play is kid — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drinking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in drinking plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in drinking 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.
drinking 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 3-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 drinking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
drinking is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drinking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is drinking, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from drinking 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 drinking produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.