310 words come out when you unscramble NEWSMAKING, starting with NEWSMAKING itself: 20 in Scrabble, 24 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, WAKENINGS leads with 17 points. The 10 letters split into 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from NEWSMAKING by length: 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 9, 7 with 8, 37 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 24 with 2.
Just 1 of the 9-letter words in NEWSMAKING: WAKENINGS, for 17 points.
The 7-letter words you get when you unscramble NEWSMAKING are led by MAWKINS and MISKNEW, 16 points each. MEANING, MASKING and AWNINGS are the familiar ones.
MAWKIN scores highest among the 6-letter words from NEWSMAKING at 15 points, ahead of EWKING and KAWING on 14. MAKING, IMAGES and ASKING are the ones most people know.
MAWKS tops the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble NEWSMAKING at 14 points; next come GAWKS on 13 and ASKEW on 12. MAKES, KINGS and SWING will look familiar.
MAWK scores highest among the 4-letter words from NEWSMAKING at 13 points, ahead of GAWK on 12 and AWKS on 11. MAKE, KING and MIKE are the ones most people know.
Among the 3-letter words in NEWSMAKING, AWK, EWK and KAW tie for first at 10 points. NEW, WAS and MAN are everyday picks.
Trade one tile of NEWSMAKING for another and you can spell these 5 words:
More 10-letter words: starting with NE · ending in NG · all 10-letter words
What NEWSMAKING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: NEWSMAKING is playable in Scrabble US. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWSMAKING itself | Yes | No | No |
| Answers accepted (of 310) | 227 | 309 | 204 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
83 of the 310 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MAWKINS, MAWKIN, EWKING, KAWING, MAWKS, SMEKING, SWANKIE, MAWK, MEWSING, MISKEN, WEANINGS, AWKS and 71 more. 22 of the 310 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: WAKINGS, WANKING, KNAWES, KNAWE, MASKNE, WANKS, KAMIS, MAKIS, WANK, ASWIM, GANKS, MAKI and 10 more. 1 of the 310 answers is missing from Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: NEWSMAKING.
These 2 words take every letter of NEWSMAKING plus a single extra one.