featuring needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 388 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
featuring is the highest-scoring word from featuring, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 388 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in featuring — and it is featuring itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in featuring. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are figurant, figurate, fruitage, and refuting, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in featuring produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fearing, tearing, and urinate. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including fearing, engraft and farting.
Unscrambling featuring turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, figure and finger. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including figure, finger and faring.
There are 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in featuring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, agent and anger. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including grief, fagin and feign.
Rearranging the letters in featuring produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, earn and fair. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including gift, fang and frag.
Unscrambling featuring turns up 91 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are fag, fig, fug, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in featuring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in featuring 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.
featuring 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
featuring is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing featuring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is featuring, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from featuring 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 featuring produce 388 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 91 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.