answering needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 377 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
answering is the highest-scoring word from answering, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 377 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in answering — and it is answering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in answering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swearing and warnings. For points, the strongest plays are resawing, swearing, and warnings — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in answering produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, erasing and insaner. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including warning, wearing and awnings.
Unscrambling answering turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, answer and easing. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including sewing, aweing and awning.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in answering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, earns and gains. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including swing, wings and awing.
Rearranging the letters in answering produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and earn. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including grew, wigs and wing.
Unscrambling answering turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are wag and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in answering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in answering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in answering and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
answering 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for answering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
answering is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing answering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is answering, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from answering 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 answering produce 377 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.