Hidden inside friending sit friending, infringed, and refinding, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 153 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
friending, infringed, and refinding tie for the highest Scrabble score from friending at 14 points. The top 10 of 153 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in friending: two come from rearranging its letters, and friending itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are friending, infringed, and refinding, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friending. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: defining, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in friending produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finding. For points, the strongest plays are fending, finding, and fringed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling friending turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dining, dinner and ending. For points, the strongest plays are fridge and frigid — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, finer and fired. For points, the strongest play is fidge — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in friending produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, find and fine. For points, the strongest plays are defi, fend, find, and frig — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling friending turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and end. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including fed, def and dif.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in friending. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in friending plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in friending 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.
friending 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.
friending is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing friending unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are friending, infringed, and refinding, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from friending 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 friending produce 153 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.