emptying needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emptying is the highest-scoring word from emptying, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in emptying — and it is emptying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in emptying produces 2 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 pigment and temping, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emptying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empty and tying. For points, the strongest plays are gimpy and pigmy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in emptying produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, mine and mint. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including pity, type and gimp.
Unscrambling emptying turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, gym and men. For points, the strongest plays are gym and gyp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in emptying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, me, and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in emptying 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.
emptying 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for emptying. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
emptying is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing emptying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is emptying, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from emptying 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 emptying produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.