dampening needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 236 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dampening is the highest-scoring word from dampening, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 236 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in dampening — and it is dampening itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dampening produces exactly one eight-letter word: amending. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dampening produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damning and meaning. For points, the strongest plays are damping and medigap — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dampening turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ending, gained, maiden, and naming. For points, the strongest play is gimped — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dampening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, image, media, and named. For points, the strongest plays are amped and imped — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dampening produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, amen and damn. For points, the strongest plays are damp, gamp, and gimp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dampening turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid and aim. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dampening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
Swap a single tile in dampening and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
dampening 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 one sense for dampening. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
dampening is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dampening unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dampening, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dampening 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 dampening produce 236 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.