Unscramble CLEANING and you have 174 words, CLEANING itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 11 points: ELANCING and ENLACING. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for lacening, lancinge, leancing, acegilnn, angelnic, cinangle, cleannig, gninaelc, caningle or annegilc? They use the same letters as CLEANING, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from CLEANING split into 3 with 8 letters, 9 with 7, 19 with 6, 35 with 5, 55 with 4, 39 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Of the 35 5-letter words from CLEANING, 5 score 8 points, the group's best. CLEAN, ANGEL and ANGLE are the ones most people know.
55 4-letter words made with CLEANING letters; 4 of them share the top score of 7. LINE, NICE and GAIN are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of CLEANING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with CL · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
CLEANING first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. CLEANING is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLEANING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 174) | 134 | 173 | 126 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 39 of them: ELANCING, CANGLE, ANCILE, NEALING, NEANIC, ANCLE, CANG, EALING, EANING, ENIAC, GINNEL, INCLE and 27 more. Words With Friends* skips 9 of them: CLEG, INCEL, INNAGE, LIGNAN, CIG, CAL, GEAN, NEG and GI. Scrabble US and Scrabble UK skip 1 of them: NANCE.
Each word below uses all the letters of CLEANING and one more.