amending 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, 152 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amending is the highest-scoring word from amending, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 152 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in amending — and it is amending itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in amending produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damning and meaning. For points, the strongest plays are damning and mending — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling amending turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ending, gained, maiden, and naming. For points, the strongest plays are degami and imaged — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, image, media, and named. For points, the strongest plays are gamed and midge — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in amending produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, amen and damn. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dime and game.
Unscrambling amending turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid and aim. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in amending plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in amending 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.
amending 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.
amending is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amending unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is amending, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from amending 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 amending produce 152 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.