Hidden inside demanding sit demanding and maddening, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demanding and maddening tie for the highest Scrabble score from demanding at 14 points. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in demanding: one comes from rearranging its letters, and demanding itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demanding. For points, the strongest plays are demanding and maddening — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling demanding 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 demanding produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damning and meaning. For points, the strongest play is madding — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling demanding turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adding, damned and demand. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including damned, demand and minded.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demanding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, dined and image. For points, the strongest plays are gamed and midge — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in demanding produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, amen and damn. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dime and game.
Unscrambling demanding turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, age and aid. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demanding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in demanding plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in demanding 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.
demanding 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 demanding. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
demanding is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demanding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demanding and maddening, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from demanding 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 demanding produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.