battering needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
battering is the highest-scoring word from battering, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in battering — and it is battering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in battering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treating. For points, the strongest plays are abetting, berating, rebating, and tabering — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in battering produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bearing, beating, betting, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are batting, bearing, beating, and betting — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling battering turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bitten, bitter, eating, rating, and target. For points, the strongest plays are banger, baring, bating, begirt, binger, and graben — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in battering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, began, begin, being, brain, and bring. For points, the strongest plays are barge, began, begat, begin, being, binge, bring, and giber — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in battering produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bait, bang, bare, barn, bean, bear, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are bang, berg, bing, brag, brig, garb, gibe, and grab — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling battering turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and bag. For points, the strongest plays are bag, beg, big, gab, and gib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in battering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, be, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bi — each worth 4 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 battering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in battering 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.
battering 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 battering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
battering is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing battering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is battering, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from battering 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 battering produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.