Hidden inside feeding sit feeding and feigned, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
feeding and feigned tie for the highest Scrabble score from feeding at 12 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in feeding: one comes from rearranging its letters, and feeding itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feeding. For points, the strongest plays are feeding and feigned — 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 feeding turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with define. For points, the strongest plays are define, feeing, and infeed — 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feeding. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is fidge, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in feeding produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, edge, feed, find, fine, gene, and need. For points, the strongest plays are defi, feed, fend, and find — 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 feeding turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, fed, fee, and gee. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, fid, fig, and gif — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in feeding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in feeding and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
feeding 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for feeding. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
feeding is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing feeding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are feeding and feigned, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from feeding 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 feeding produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.