forbidding needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 149 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
forbidding is the highest-scoring word from forbidding, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 149 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in forbidding — and it is forbidding itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in forbidding produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bidding. For points, the strongest play is fibroid — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling forbidding turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boring, firing and forbid. For points, the strongest play is forbid — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forbidding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bingo, bring and doing. For points, the strongest play is bifid — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in forbidding produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bind, bird and bond. For points, the strongest play is forb — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling forbidding turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bid, big and did. For points, the strongest plays are fib and fob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in forbidding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, the strongest plays are if and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
forbidding 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for forbidding. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
forbidding is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing forbidding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is forbidding, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from forbidding 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 forbidding produce 149 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.