concerning needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
concerning is the highest-scoring word from concerning, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in concerning — and it is concerning itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling concerning produces exactly one nine-letter word: reconning. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in concerning. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is coercing, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in concerning produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with concern. For points, the strongest plays are concern, cornice, crocein, and crocine — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling concerning turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignore and region. For points, the strongest play is cicero — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in concerning. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, inner, and nicer. For points, the strongest plays are cerci, ceric, conic, and croci — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in concerning produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone and core. For points, the strongest play is croc — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling concerning turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ego and ice. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in concerning. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and no. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
concerning 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.
concerning is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing concerning unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is concerning, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from concerning 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 concerning produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.