174 words come out when you unscramble TURNINGS, starting with TURNINGS itself: 9 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 9 points: UNSTRING. The best shorter words score 8: 5 of them, NURSING, TURNING and RUSTING included. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from TURNINGS by length: 2 with 8 letters, 6 with 7, 15 with 6, 33 with 5, 59 with 4, 45 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Among 33 5-letter words from TURNINGS, the top score is 6, reached by 21. USING, UNITS and RINGS are the familiar ones.
32 of 59 4-letter words from TURNINGS tie at 5 points; none scores more. SIGN, UNIT and TURN will look familiar.
Keep every letter of TURNINGS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with TU · ending in GS · all 8-letter words
The meaning of TURNINGS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. TURNINGS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TURNINGS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 174) | 135 | 174 | 125 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 39 of them: URNINGS, RUINGS, SURING, URNING, GIUST, GURNS, STRIG, UNTINS, GINN, GRIS, GURN, GURS and 27 more. Words With Friends* skips 10 of them: TUNINGS, INRUNS, INRUN, NUGS, GIS, NUG, SIG, UNIS, GI and UNI.
These 7 words take every letter of TURNINGS plus a single extra one.