Hidden inside joking sit jingko and joking, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
jingko and joking tie for the highest Scrabble score from joking at 18 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in joking: one comes from rearranging its letters, and joking itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with joking. For points, the strongest plays are jingko and joking — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling joking produces exactly one five-letter word: jingo. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in joking produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with join and king. For points, the strongest plays are jink and koji — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling joking turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink. For points, the strongest plays are jig and jog — each worth 11 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 joking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, ok, and on. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in joking plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in joking and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
joking 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 4-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 joking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
joking is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing joking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are jingko and joking, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from joking 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 joking produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 9 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.