Unscramble HIDLINGS to get 96 words. HIDLINGS itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. HIDLINGS has 1 anagram here, HILDINGS, scoring 13 like HIDLINGS itself. Among the shorter answers, 5 reach 12 points, DISHING, SHINDIG and HIDINGS among them. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from HIDLINGS by length: 2 with 8 letters, 8 with 7, 7 with 6, 10 with 5, 37 with 4, 23 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Among 37 4-letter words you get when you unscramble HIDLINGS, the top score is 8, reached by 8. SIGN, DISH and SING are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of HIDLINGS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with HI · ending in GS · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by HILDINGS (13 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts HIDLINGS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIDLINGS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 96) | 73 | 96 | 69 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HIDLINGS, HIDLING, HIDLINS, HINGS, LINISH, HILD, HING, NISH, SILING, GLID, ISH, LINDS and 11 more, 23 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SIDH, GIS, SIG and GI, 4 in all.
These 2 words take every letter of HIDLINGS plus a single extra one.