drafting needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drafting is the highest-scoring word from drafting, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in drafting — and it is drafting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drafting produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trading. For points, the strongest play is farding — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling drafting turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring, dating, and rating. For points, the strongest play is fading — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drafting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drain, giant, grand, grant, grind, and train. For points, the strongest plays are draft, drift, fagin, graft, and grift — 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 drafting produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dirt, drag, fair, find, gain, gift, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are daft, fang, fard, find, frag, frig, and gift — 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 drafting turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, ant, art, dig, and fan. For points, the strongest plays are dif, fad, fag, fid, fig, and gif — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drafting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, if, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are fa and if — each 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 drafting 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.
drafting 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for drafting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
drafting is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drafting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is drafting, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from drafting 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 drafting produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.