Unscramble SWIVELING and you have 207 words, SWIVELING itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, VIEWINGS leads with 15 points. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SWIVELING split into 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 8, 12 with 7, 24 with 6, 55 with 5, 60 with 4, 41 with 3 and 11 with 2.
WIVING tops the 6-letter words from SWIVELING at 13 points; next come SWIVEL and VINEWS on 12. SINGLE, LIVING and SEWING will look familiar.
Of the 55 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SWIVELING, 4 score 11 points, the group's best. GIVEN, VIEWS and LINES are the ones most people know.
The 4-letter words in SWIVELING are led by VIEW and WIVE, 10 points each. NEWS, LINE and SIGN are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of SWIVELING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with SW · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
What SWIVELING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SWIVELING 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWIVELING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 207) | 164 | 207 | 148 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
43 of the 207 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: VINEWS, WISELING, SLIVING, VINEW, WEISING, WINGES, SLIVEN, VISILE, WINGE, SEILING, SEWIN, SLIVE and 31 more. 16 of the 207 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SWILING, GWINE, LEVIS, SWILE, VLEIS, LEVS, VINS, VLEI, SEV, VIN, EW, NEGS and 4 more.
These 2 words take every letter of SWIVELING plus a single extra one.