Unscramble SWINDLINGS and you have 135 words, SWINDLINGS itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. SWINDLING and WINDLINGS are the best of the shorter words, at 14 points. It has 10 letters, 2 vowels and 8 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from SWINDLINGS split into 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 9, 7 with 8, 17 with 7, 18 with 6, 20 with 5, 39 with 4, 24 with 3 and 7 with 2.
The 7-letter words you get when you unscramble SWINDLINGS are led by DWINING, WILDING and WINDING, 12 points each. SLIDING is the familiar one.
5 of 39 4-letter words from SWINDLINGS tie at 8 points; none scores more. SIGN, WIND and WILD will look familiar.
Keep every letter of SWINDLINGS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with SW · ending in GS · all 10-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by SWINDLING and WINDLINGS (14 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
SWINDLINGS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWINDLINGS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 135) | 104 | 135 | 97 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
31 of the 135 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SWINDLINGS, INSWINGS, INSWING, SINDINGS, SLIDINGS, NIDINGS, SINDING, SNIDING, WILIS, WINNS, SILING, SINING and 19 more. 7 of the 135 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SWILINGS, SWILING, DININGS, SIGS, GIS, SIG and GI.
Each word below uses all the letters of SWINDLINGS and one more.