Hidden inside assessing sit assessing and gassiness, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assessing and gassiness tie for the highest Scrabble score from assessing at 10 points. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in assessing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and assessing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are assessing and gassiness, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in assessing produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assigns. For points, the strongest plays are assigns and sassing — 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 assessing turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assign, easing, and gasses. For points, the strongest plays are assign, easing, gasses, gneiss, and singes — 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assessing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, gains, gases, signs, and sings. For points, the strongest plays are aegis, gains, gases, geans, sages, segni, sengi, signa, signs, singe, sings, and snags — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in assessing produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, gain, nags, sane, sang, seas, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are ages, agin, egis, engs, gaen, gaes, gain, gane, gean, gens, gien, gies, gins, nags, negs, sage, sags, sang, segs, sign, sigs, sing, and snag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling assessing turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ass, gas, nag, sea, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, eng, gae, gan, gas, gen, gie, gin, gis, nag, neg, sag, seg, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assessing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in assessing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in assessing 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.
assessing 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
assessing is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing assessing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assessing and gassiness, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from assessing 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 assessing produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.