devouring needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 292 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
devouring is the highest-scoring word from devouring, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 292 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in devouring — and it is devouring itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devouring. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ringdove, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in devouring produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignored. For points, the strongest play is droving — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling devouring turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driven, during and ground. For points, the strongest plays are groved and vogued — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devouring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, doing and drive. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including drive, drove and given.
Rearranging the letters in devouring produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, dive and done. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including dive, dove and give.
Unscrambling devouring turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and dog. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including dev, guv and veg.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devouring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including do, go and id.
Swap a single tile in devouring 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.
devouring 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 devouring. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
devouring is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing devouring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is devouring, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from devouring 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 devouring produce 292 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.