Unscramble BLACKING to get 143 words. BLACKING itself is a real word: 17 points on a Scrabble board, 22 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from BLACKING by length: 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 7, 7 with 6, 26 with 5, 51 with 4, 39 with 3 and 14 with 2.
BLACK tops the 5-letter words from BLACKING at 13 points; next come BLANK and BLINK on 11. CABIN, ALIGN and BLING will look familiar.
BACK scores highest among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BLACKING at 12 points, ahead of BALK and BANK on 10. LINK, KING and GAIN are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of BLACKING for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with BL · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
What BLACKING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
BLACKING works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLACKING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 143) | 118 | 143 | 108 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 25 of them: NIKAB, AKING, BINK, GLAIK, KAING, KLANG, NABK, ABLING, KANG, KNAG, LAKIN, GAK and 13 more. Words With Friends* skips 10 of them: ACK, GANK, BANC, BLING, BING, BLAG, CIG, KI, CAL and GI.
Each word below uses all the letters of BLACKING and one more.