Hidden inside causing sit causing and saucing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
causing and saucing tie for the highest Scrabble score from causing at 10 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in causing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and causing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with causing. For points, the strongest plays are causing and saucing — 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 causing turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is casing, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in causing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, suing, and using. For points, the strongest plays are acing, cuing, and guacs — 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 causing produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, cans, gain, guns, nags, sang, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are cigs, guac, and scag — 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 causing turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, gas, gun, nag, sin, and sun. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in causing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, is, and us. 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.
Swap a single tile in causing 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.
causing 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 4-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 causing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
causing is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing causing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are causing and saucing, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from causing 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 causing produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.