Unscramble HANKING to get 64 words. HANKING itself is a real word: 15 points on a Scrabble board, 17 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is NIKAH, 12 points. The 7 letters split into 2 vowels and 5 consonants. HANKING as a single 7-tile play makes 65 in Scrabble, 15 plus the 50 bonus, and 52 in Words With Friends (17 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from HANKING by length: 1 with 7 letters, 8 with 5, 24 with 4, 20 with 3 and 11 with 2. None has 6 letters.
Keep every letter of HANKING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with HA · ending in NG · all 7-letter words
What HANKING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept HANKING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HANKING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 64) | 44 | 64 | 38 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
20 of the 64 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AKING, KAING, ANIGH, HANGI, KANG, KNAG, GAK, HING, IKAN, NAIK, HAIN, KAI and 8 more. 6 of the 64 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: NIKAH, AHING, GANK, AHI, KI and GI.
These 2 words take every letter of HANKING plus a single extra one.