allowing needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allowing is the highest-scoring word from allowing, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in allowing — and it is allowing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling allowing produces exactly one seven-letter word: walling. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling allowing turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gallon. For points, the strongest plays are lawing, lowing, and waling — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with allow, along, owing, and wagon. For points, the strongest plays are aglow, awing, gowan, owing, wagon, and wigan — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in allowing produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, goal, lawn, lion, loan, long, and nail. For points, the strongest plays are glow, gnaw, gown, and wing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling allowing turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, all, gal, ill, law, log, and low. For points, the strongest plays are wag and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, aw, go, in, no, on, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in allowing and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
allowing is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
allowing is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allowing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is allowing, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from allowing earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in allowing produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.