courting needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 156 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
courting is the highest-scoring word from courting, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 156 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in courting — and it is courting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in courting produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is trucing, 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 courting turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with curing. For points, the strongest plays are coring, coting, and curing — 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 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count, court, and groin. For points, the strongest plays are coign, corgi, cuing, incog, and orgic — 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 courting produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, corn, into, iron, ring, riot, and ruin. For points, the strongest plays are cion, coin, coir, coni, corn, crit, curn, curt, icon, otic, torc, unci, unco, and uric — 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 courting turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut, got, gun, gut, nor, and not. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, it, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in courting and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
courting 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 one sense for courting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
courting is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing courting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is courting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from courting 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 courting produce 156 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.