bargaining needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bargaining is the highest-scoring word from bargaining, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in bargaining — and it is bargaining itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bargaining. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: bringing, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bargaining produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with banging, bargain and gaining. For points, the strongest plays are banging, barging, binging, and garbing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bargaining turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing. For points, the strongest plays are biggin, gibing, and ragbag — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bargaining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, aging, brain, and bring. For points, the strongest play is bring — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bargaining produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bang, barn and brag. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including bang, brag and grab.
Unscrambling bargaining turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, bag and ban. For points, the strongest plays are bag, big, gab, and gib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bargaining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in bargaining plus one additional letter.
bargaining 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 5-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 bargaining. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
bargaining is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bargaining unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bargaining, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bargaining 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 bargaining produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.