confirming 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, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
confirming is the highest-scoring word from confirming, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in confirming — and it is confirming itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling confirming produces exactly one nine-letter word: informing. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confirming. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is incoming, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confirming produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coining, confirm and forcing. For points, the strongest plays are confirm and omnific — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling confirming turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coming, firing and inform. For points, the strongest play is formic — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confirming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin and minor. For points, the strongest play is ficin — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confirming produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, corn and firm. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including firm, foci and form.
Unscrambling confirming turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, fog and for. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including fog, fig and gif.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confirming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, if and in. For points, the strongest plays are if and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
confirming 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 two senses for confirming. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
confirming is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing confirming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is confirming, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from confirming 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 confirming produce 140 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, 12 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.