Hidden inside grieving sit grieving and regiving, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grieving and regiving tie for the highest Scrabble score from grieving at 13 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in grieving: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grieving itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grieving and regiving, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in grieving 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 verging, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling grieving turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giving and virgin. For points, the strongest play is giving — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grieving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii and given. For points, the strongest plays are given and giver — 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 grieving produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with give, ring, and vein. For points, the strongest play is give — 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 grieving turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, gig, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grieving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in grieving plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in grieving and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
grieving 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for grieving. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
grieving is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grieving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grieving and regiving, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grieving 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 grieving produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.