Hidden inside doing sit dingo and doing, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dingo and doing tie for the highest Scrabble score from doing at 7 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in doing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and doing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing. For points, the strongest plays are dingo and doing — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in doing produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ding and dong, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling doing turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dog, and god. For points, the strongest plays are dig, dog, gid, and god — each worth 5 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 doing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, id, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are do, gi, go, id, and od — each worth 3 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 doing and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
doing 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
doing is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing doing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dingo and doing, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from doing 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 doing produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.