Hidden inside editing sit dieting, editing, and ignited, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dieting, editing, and ignited tie for the highest Scrabble score from editing at 9 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in editing: two come from rearranging its letters, and editing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editing. For points, the strongest plays are dieting, editing, and ignited — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling editing turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dieing, nidget, tiding, and tinged, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in editing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii. For points, the strongest plays are deign, digit, and dinge — 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 editing produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dine, edit, tend, and tied. For points, the strongest plays are ding and gied — 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 editing turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, get, net, ten, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in editing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — 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 editing 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.
editing 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 one sense for editing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
editing is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing editing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dieting, editing, and ignited, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from editing 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 editing produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.