Hidden inside drawing sit drawing and warding, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble WADRING, WIGRAND or INGDRAW and you get the same 7 letters as DRAWING: so the words from DRAWING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
drawing and warding tie for the highest Scrabble score from drawing at 12 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in drawing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drawing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drawing. For points, the strongest plays are drawing and warding — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drawing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drain, drawn, grand, and grind. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including drawn, awing and diwan.
Rearranging the letters in drawing produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dawn, drag and draw. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including dawn, draw and wand.
Unscrambling drawing turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air and and. For points, the strongest plays are daw, wad, wag, and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drawing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and aw. For points, the strongest play is aw — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in drawing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in drawing and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
drawing 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 six senses for drawing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
drawing is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drawing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drawing and warding, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drawing 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 drawing produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.