Unscramble WILDLINGS to get 102 words. WILDLINGS itself is a real word: 14 points on a Scrabble board, 18 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
W4I1L12D2L12I1N12G23S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from WILDLINGS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 4 with 8, 6 with 7, 7 with 6, 17 with 5, 37 with 4, 23 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Of the 37 4-letter words from WILDLINGS, 5 score 8 points, the group's best. WILL, SIGN and WIND are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of WILDLINGS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with WI · ending in GS · all 9-letter words
WILDLINGS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
WILDLINGS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILDLINGS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 102) | 81 | 102 | 77 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 21 of them: DILLINGS, DILLING, WILIS, DILLIS, SILING, WILI, DILLI, GLID, IWI, LINDS, INGS, LIGS and 9 more. Words With Friends* skips 4 of them: SWILING, GIS, SIG and GI.