Hidden inside feeling sit feeling and fleeing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
feeling and fleeing tie for the highest Scrabble score from feeling at 11 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in feeling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and feeling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: feeling and fleeing, worth 11 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling feeling turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is feeing, worth 10 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 feeling. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are feign and fling, 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 feeling produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feel, file, fine, flee, gene, life, and line. For points, the strongest plays are feel, file, fine, flee, lief, life, and neif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling feeling turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fee, gee, leg, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are fig and gif — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feeling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 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 feeling 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.
feeling 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 six senses for feeling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
feeling is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing feeling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are feeling and fleeing, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from feeling 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 feeling produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.