commanding needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 208 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
commanding is the highest-scoring word from commanding, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 208 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in commanding — and it is commanding itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in commanding produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with command, damning, and dancing. For points, the strongest play is command — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling commanding turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coming and naming. For points, the strongest plays are coming, gammon, gnomic, macing, and modica — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in commanding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among, doing, and magic. For points, the strongest play is comma — 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 commanding produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, coin, coma, damn, gain, maid, and main. For points, the strongest play is comm — 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 commanding turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, aid, aim, and, can, con, and dig. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, mam, mic, mim, moc, and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in commanding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, do, go, id, and in. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
commanding 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 6-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 commanding. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
commanding is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing commanding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is commanding, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from commanding 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 commanding produce 208 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 13 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.