30 words come out when you unscramble YIRKING, starting with YIRKING itself: 15 in Scrabble, 16 in Words With Friends. RYKING and YIKING are the best of the shorter words, at 14 points. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. YIRKING as a single 7-tile play makes 65 in Scrabble, 15 plus the 50 bonus, and 51 in Words With Friends (16 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from YIRKING split into 1 with 7 letters, 4 with 6, 1 with 5, 10 with 4, 9 with 3 and 5 with 2.
IRING is the only one of the 5-letter words in YIRKING; it scores 6 points.
Trade one tile of YIRKING for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with YI · ending in NG · all 7-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by RYKING (14 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
YIRKING 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| YIRKING itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 30) | 23 | 30 | 21 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: YIRKING, YIKING, GIRKIN, YIRK, KY, NY and ING, 7 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: KI and GI, 2 in all.