warning needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble RNWAING, RANWING or ANWRING and you get the same 7 letters as WARNING: so the words from WARNING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
warning is the highest-scoring word from warning, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in warning — and it is warning itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling warning turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are awning, waning, and waring, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in warning. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are awing, gnawn, wigan and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in warning produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, rain and rang. For points, the strongest plays are gnaw and wing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling warning turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, nag and rag. For points, the strongest plays are wag and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in warning plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in warning and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
warning 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 four senses for warning. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
warning is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing warning unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is warning, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from warning 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 warning produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.