Hidden inside grading sit grading and niggard, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grading and niggard tie for the highest Scrabble score from grading at 10 points. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in grading: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grading itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grading. For points, the strongest plays are grading and niggard — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grading turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring. For points, the strongest plays are daring, gradin, and raging — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grading. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, drain, grand, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are aging, grand, and grind — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grading produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drag, gain, gang, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are dang, ding, drag, gadi, gang, giga, gird, grad, grid, grig, and ragg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grading turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, dig, gag, gig, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, gag, gid, gig, and igg — each worth 5 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 grading. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, gi, and id — each worth 3 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 grading 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.
grading 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 grading. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
grading is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grading unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grading and niggard, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grading 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 grading produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.