Hidden inside dawdling sit dawdling and waddling, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dawdling and waddling tie for the highest Scrabble score from dawdling at 14 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in dawdling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dawdling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dawdling and waddling, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dawdling produces 2 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 wadding, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dawdling turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adding. For points, the strongest plays are dawing and wading — 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dawdling. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are awing, diwan, and wigan, each 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 dawdling produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dawn, dial, gain, glad, laid, land, and lawn. For points, the strongest plays are dawn, gnaw, wadi, wand, wild, wind, and wing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dawdling turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, aid, and, dad, did, dig, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are daw, wad, wag, and wig — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dawdling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, aw, id, and in. For points, the strongest play is aw — worth 5 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 dawdling 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.
dawdling 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 3-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 dawdling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
dawdling is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dawdling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dawdling and waddling, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dawdling 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 dawdling produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.