empowering needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 327 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
empowering is the highest-scoring word from empowering, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 327 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in empowering — and it is empowering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling empowering produces exactly one eight-letter word: powering. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in empowering produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weeping. For points, the strongest plays are empower, impower, and pinworm — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling empowering turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, ignore and opener. For points, the strongest plays are mewing and mowing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in empowering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gnome, green and groin. For points, the strongest plays are mower, power, wiper, and women — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in empowering produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, germ and gone. For points, the strongest play is wimp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling empowering turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, gee and men. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including mew, mow and pew.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in empowering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, go and in. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
empowering 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
empowering is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing empowering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is empowering, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from empowering 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 empowering produce 327 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 22 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.