explaining needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 219 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
explaining is the highest-scoring word from explaining, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 219 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in explaining — and it is explaining itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in explaining. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paneling and plaining, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in explaining produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with explain, leaning, leaping, and nailing. For points, the strongest play is explain — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling explaining turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lining. For points, the strongest play is nixing — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in explaining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, angel and angle. For points, the strongest plays are pixel and pixie — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in explaining produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, lane and lean. For points, the strongest plays are apex and plex — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling explaining turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ape and gal. For points, the strongest plays are pax and pix — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in explaining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ex, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
explaining 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.
explaining is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing explaining unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is explaining, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from explaining 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 explaining produce 219 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.