extolling needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 155 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
extolling is the highest-scoring word from extolling, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 155 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in extolling — and it is extolling itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in extolling produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with telling. For points, the strongest plays are gillnet, lentigo, telling, and tolling — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling extolling turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is loxing, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extolling. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is exing, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in extolling produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exit, gone and into. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including exit, next and exon.
Unscrambling extolling turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get and got. For points, the strongest play is gox — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extolling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, go and in. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in extolling 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.
extolling 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.
extolling is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing extolling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is extolling, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from extolling 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 extolling produce 155 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.