Unscramble SHOWINGS to get 163 words. SHOWINGS itself is a real word: 15 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. SHOWING is the best of the shorter words, at 14 points. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SHOWINGS split into 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 8 with 6, 33 with 5, 57 with 4, 43 with 3 and 17 with 2.
WHIGS tops the 5-letter words from SHOWINGS at 12 points; next come SHOWN and SHOWS on 11. SONGS, SIGNS and WINGS will look familiar.
The best of the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SHOWINGS is WHIG, 11 points; HOWS and SHOW on 10 follow. SIGN, WISH and SONG are everyday picks.
Trade one tile of SHOWINGS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
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The meaning of SHOWINGS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
SHOWINGS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHOWINGS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 163) | 127 | 163 | 112 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
36 of the 163 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SNOWISH, SOWSING, WHIOS, WHISS, HONGIS, WHIO, WONGIS, GNOWS, HINGS, HOING, WONGI, GNOW and 24 more. 15 of the 163 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SOWINGS, SHOGIS, HONGI, SHOGI, HOSS, SOHS, HOS, SHO, SOH, SIGS, GIS, GOS and 3 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of SHOWINGS and one more.