Hidden inside washings sit swashing and washings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 155 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
swashing and washings tie for the highest Scrabble score from washings at 15 points. The top 10 of 155 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in washings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and washings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are swashing and washings, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in washings produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with washing. For points, the strongest plays are shawing and washing — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling washings turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assign and swings. For points, the strongest plays are hawing and whangs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in washings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, hangs, signs, sings, swans, swing, and wings. For points, the strongest plays are whang and whigs — 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 washings produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, hang, nags, sang, sign, sing, and sins. For points, the strongest play is whig — 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 washings turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ass, gas, has, his, nag, and nah. For points, the strongest plays are haw and wha — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in washings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, aw, ha, hi, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ah, aw, ha, hi, and sh — 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 washings 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.
washings 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 1-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 washings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
washings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing washings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are swashing and washings, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from washings 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 washings produce 155 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.