Unscramble STICKYING and you have 139 words, STICKYING itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from STICKYING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 6 with 7, 16 with 6, 22 with 5, 46 with 4, 36 with 3 and 10 with 2.
STICKY scores highest among the 6-letter words from STICKYING at 15 points, ahead of SKYING and YIKING on 14. SKIING, CITING and SITING are the ones most people know.
ICKY tops the 4-letter words made with STICKYING letters at 13 points; next come INKY on 11 and ICKS on 10. CITY, SIGN and KING will look familiar.
SKY scores highest among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble STICKYING at 10 points, ahead of ICK on 9 and ICY on 8. ITS, KIT and SKI are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of STICKYING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with ST · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; STICKING, STICKY and TICKINGS (15 points each) share the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: STICKYING 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| STICKYING itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 139) | 109 | 139 | 93 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: STICKYING, SKYTING, TICKY, YIKING, KISTING, SINKY, TISICK, CYTISI, KY, TICING, TINKS, TIKS and 18 more, 30 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SICKY, KITINGS, ICKS, TIYINS, TIYIN, TIYNS, TYINS, CIGS, KIS, TIYN, TYIN, CIG and 4 more, 16 in all.