containing needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
containing is the highest-scoring word from containing, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in containing — and it is containing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling containing turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are actioning, cantoning, incanting, incognita, and nonacting, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in containing. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: noticing, 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 containing produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coining, contain, and tanning. For points, the strongest plays are canning, canting, coating, coining, conning, and cotinga — 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 containing turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, action, cannot, and nation. For points, the strongest plays are acting, agonic, caning, citing, congii, coning, and coting — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in containing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant and tango. For points, the strongest plays are acing, coign, conga, icing, and incog — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in containing produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coat, coin, gain, goat, into, and taco. For points, the strongest plays are cain, cant, ciao, cion, coat, coin, coni, conn, icon, otic, and taco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling containing turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ago, ant, can, cat, con, and got. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in containing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in containing plus one additional letter.
containing 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.
containing is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing containing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is containing, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from containing 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 containing produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.