Hidden inside competing sit coempting and competing, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 240 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coempting and competing tie for the highest Scrabble score from competing at 16 points. The top 10 of 240 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in competing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and competing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with competing. For points, the strongest plays are coempting and competing — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in competing. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is compting, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in competing produces 12 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is comping, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling competing turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coming, income, notice, and pigeon. For points, the strongest play is coempt — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in competing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gnome, point, and topic. For points, the strongest play is compt — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in competing produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin and come. For points, the strongest play is comp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling competing turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop and ego. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including cop, mop and cep.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in competing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and it. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in competing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in competing 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.
competing 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.
competing is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing competing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coempting and competing, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from competing 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 competing produce 240 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.