Unscramble FLINCHINGS and you have 135 words, FLINCHINGS itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are FLINCHING, CLINGFISH and FILCHINGS, 18 points each. The 10 letters split into 2 vowels and 8 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from FLINCHINGS by length: 1 with 10 letters, 3 with 9, 2 with 8, 10 with 7, 21 with 6, 22 with 5, 38 with 4, 28 with 3 and 10 with 2.
FLINCH scores highest among the 6-letter words you get when you unscramble FLINCHINGS at 14 points, ahead of CHINGS and FINISH on 12. FILING and LINING are the ones most people know.
FISH scores highest among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble FLINCHINGS at 10 points, ahead of CHIN and CHIS on 9. SIGN, INCH and SING are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of FLINCHINGS for another and you can spell these 2 words:
More 10-letter words: starting with FL · ending in GS · all 10-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by CLINGFISH and FLINCHING (18 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: FLINCHINGS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLINCHINGS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 135) | 111 | 134 | 98 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
23 of the 135 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FLINCHINGS, FILCHINGS, ICHING, NICISH, LINCH, HINGS, LINISH, SICH, HING, CH, FINI, NISH and 11 more. 13 of the 135 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CLINGFISH, CHINSING, CHINGS, CHILIS, CHING, GINCH, GIFS, CIGS, GIF, CIG, GIS, SIG and 1 more. 1 of the 135 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI.