feathering needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 510 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
feathering is the highest-scoring word from feathering, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 510 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in feathering — and it is feathering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling feathering turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is fathering, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feathering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with frighten and heritage. For points, the strongest plays are farthing, frighten, and hangfire — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in feathering produces 49 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fearing, feather and fighter. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including fighter, freight and hafting.
Unscrambling feathering turns up 81 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, either and entire. For points, the strongest play is fright — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feathering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, agent and agree. For points, the strongest play is fight — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in feathering produces 133 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, earn and fair. For points, the strongest plays are haft and heft — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling feathering turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are fah and feh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feathering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and at. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in feathering plus one additional letter.
feathering 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 1-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 feathering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
feathering is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing feathering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is feathering, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from feathering 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 feathering produce 510 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 49 seven-letter words, 81 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 133 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.