Hidden inside coming sit coming and gnomic, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coming and gnomic tie for the highest Scrabble score from coming at 11 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in coming: one comes from rearranging its letters, and coming itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coming. For points, the strongest plays are coming and gnomic — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coming. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is monic, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in coming produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin. For points, the strongest plays are cion, coin, coni, and icon — 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 coming turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con. For points, the strongest plays are mic and moc — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in coming and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
coming 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for coming. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
coming is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing coming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coming and gnomic, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from coming 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 coming produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.