deepening needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 89 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deepening is the highest-scoring word from deepening, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 89 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in deepening — and it is deepening itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deepening produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needing. For points, the strongest play is pending — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deepening turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ending, engine, and peeing. For points, the strongest play is pinged — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deepening. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are genip and pined, 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 deepening produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, dine, edge, gene, need, nine, and peed. For points, the strongest plays are deep, pedi, peed, pend, pied, and ping — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deepening turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dip, end, gee, pee, and pen. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, gip, ped, peg, and pig — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deepening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — 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 deepening 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.
deepening 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 two senses for deepening. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
deepening is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deepening unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deepening, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deepening 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 deepening produce 89 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.