footnoting needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
footnoting is the highest-scoring word from footnoting, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in footnoting — and it is footnoting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in footnoting produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is footing, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling footnoting turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gonion, noting, tignon and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footnoting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with onion. For points, the strongest plays are gonif and gonof — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in footnoting produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with foot, gift and into. For points, the strongest plays are gift and goof — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling footnoting turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fit, fog and goo. For points, the strongest plays are fig, fog, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footnoting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, if and in. For points, the strongest plays are if and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
footnoting 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.
footnoting is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing footnoting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is footnoting, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from footnoting 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 footnoting produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.