growing needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble NRWOGGI, GINGROW or WORGING and you get the same 7 letters as GROWING: so the words from GROWING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
growing is the highest-scoring word from growing, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in growing — and it is growing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in growing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with going, groin and grown. For points, the strongest plays are grown, owing, wring, and wrong — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in growing produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grow, iron and ring. For points, the strongest plays are gown, grow, and wing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling growing turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig, nor and now. For points, the strongest play is wig — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in growing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and no. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in growing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in growing 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.
growing 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 growing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
growing is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing growing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is growing, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from growing 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 growing produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.