filtering 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, 211 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
filtering is the highest-scoring word from filtering, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 211 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in filtering — and it is filtering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filtering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flirting. For points, the strongest plays are fileting, flirting, refiling, and trifling — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in filtering produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lifting. For points, the strongest plays are felting, flinger, fliting, lifting, rifling, and rifting — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling filtering turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with filing, finger, firing, and tinier. For points, the strongest plays are feting, filing, finger, firing, fringe, and regift — 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filtering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, flirt, genii, grief, and tiger. For points, the strongest plays are feign, fling, grief, and grift — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in filtering produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with felt, file, fine, fire, gift, girl, and left. For points, the strongest plays are frig and gift — 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 filtering turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fit, get, leg, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filtering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, and it. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in filtering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in filtering 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.
filtering 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.
filtering is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing filtering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is filtering, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from filtering 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 filtering produce 211 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.