173 words come out when you unscramble WEAKENING, starting with WEAKENING itself: 17 in Scrabble, 20 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from WEAKENING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 6 with 7, 14 with 6, 22 with 5, 59 with 4, 54 with 3 and 16 with 2.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words made with WEAKENING letters: WAKENING, 16 points.
Among the 4-letter words in WEAKENING, GAWK leads with 12 points, then KNEW and WAKE on 11. WEEK, KING and WINE are the familiar ones.
AWK, EWK and KAW are the top 3-letter words made with WEAKENING letters, 10 points each. NEW, AGE and INN will look familiar.
Trade one tile of WEAKENING for another and you can spell these 3 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with WE · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
What WEAKENING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept WEAKENING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEAKENING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 173) | 121 | 173 | 107 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
52 of the 173 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EWKING, KAWING, ENEWING, KAEING, AKING, AWK, EWK, KAING, KAW, NEWING, KANG, KNAG and 40 more. 14 of the 173 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: WANKING, KNAWE, WANK, WEEING, GANK, GWINE, EEK, INNAGE, EEW, KI, EW, GEAN and 2 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of WEAKENING and one more.