engineering needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
engineering is the highest-scoring word from engineering, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in engineering — and it is engineering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in engineering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with engineer. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including engining, greening and grinning.
Rearranging the letters in engineering produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ringing. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including ringing, genning and ginning.
Unscrambling engineering turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with engine. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including eggier, geeing and gieing.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in engineering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, green, and inner. For points, the strongest play is egger — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in engineering produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, nine, and ring. For points, the strongest play is grig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling engineering turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, gee, gig, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in engineering plus one additional letter.
engineering 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for engineering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
engineering is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing engineering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is engineering, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from engineering 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 engineering produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.