embodying needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 227 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
embodying is the highest-scoring word from embodying, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 227 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in embodying — and it is embodying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in embodying produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bodymen and bogymen, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling embodying turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beyond and dyeing. For points, the strongest plays are embody and imbody — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embodying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, being, bingo, demon, doing, dying, and gnome. For points, the strongest play is gybed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in embodying produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bend, bind, body, bond, bone, deny, and dime. For points, the strongest plays are body, bogy, demy, doby, emyd, goby, and gybe — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling embodying turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, beg, bid, big, boy, bye, and die. For points, the strongest play is gym — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embodying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, by, do, go, id, in, and me. For points, the strongest plays are by and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in embodying 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.
embodying 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
embodying is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing embodying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is embodying, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from embodying 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 embodying produce 227 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.