comparing needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 329 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
comparing is the highest-scoring word from comparing, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 329 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in comparing — and it is comparing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comparing. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cramping and picogram, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in comparing produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camping. For points, the strongest plays are camping, campong, and comping — each 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 comparing turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring, coming, and racing. For points, the strongest plays are amping, caping, coming, coping, gnomic, macing, moping, and pacing — 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 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comparing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among, cigar, groin, magic, minor, organ, and panic. For points, the strongest plays are campi, campo, cramp, and crimp — 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 comparing produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camp, coin, coma, corn, cram, crap, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are camp and comp — 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 comparing turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, aim, air, arm, can, cap, and car. For points, the strongest plays are amp, cam, cap, cop, imp, mac, map, mic, moc, mop, pac, pam, pic, and pom — 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 comparing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, go, in, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, mo, om, op, pa, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in comparing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in comparing 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.
comparing 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for comparing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
comparing is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing comparing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is comparing, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from comparing 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 comparing produce 329 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.