engraving needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
engraving is the highest-scoring word from engraving, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in engraving — and it is engraving itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in engraving. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is avenging, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in engraving produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning. For points, the strongest plays are graving, venging, and verging — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling engraving turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with naiver. For points, the strongest plays are graven, raving, rivage, and virgae — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in engraving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, anger, given, grave, inner, naive, and range. For points, the strongest plays are ganev, given, giver, grave, vegan, and virga — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in engraving produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gang, gave, give, near, and nine. For points, the strongest plays are gave, give, vagi, vang, vega, and viga — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling engraving turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, are, ear, egg, era, and gag. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in engraving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in engraving plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in engraving 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.
engraving 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 engraving. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
engraving is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing engraving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is engraving, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from engraving 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 engraving produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.