Hidden inside wrinkles sit winklers and wrinkles, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 183 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
winklers and wrinkles tie for the highest Scrabble score from wrinkles at 15 points. The top 10 of 183 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in wrinkles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and wrinkles 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 winklers and wrinkles, 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 wrinkles produces 7 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 welkins, winkers, winkler, winkles, and wrinkle, 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 wrinkles turns up 16 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are welkin, winker, and winkle, 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wrinkles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with likes, lines, links, risen, siren, wines, and winks. For points, the strongest plays are lewks, swink, and winks — 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 wrinkles produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, knew, lies, like, line, link, and news. For points, the strongest plays are knew, lewk, skew, and wink — each 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 wrinkles turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, lie, new, sew, sin, sir, and ski. For points, the strongest plays are elk, ilk, ink, irk, ken, kin, kir, kis, lek, and ski — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wrinkles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, in, is, and we. 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 wrinkles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wrinkles 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.
wrinkles 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 seven senses for wrinkles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
wrinkles is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wrinkles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are winklers and wrinkles, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from wrinkles 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 wrinkles produce 183 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.