hammering needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hammering is the highest-scoring word from hammering, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in hammering — and it is hammering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hammering produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with harming and hearing. For points, the strongest plays are hamming and hemming — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hammering turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hammer and remain. For points, the strongest plays are hammer and maihem — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hammering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, image, and range. For points, the strongest plays are gemma, gimme, harem, hemin, herma, and ihram — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hammering produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, amen, argh, earn, gain, game, and germ. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, haem, hame, harm, and herm — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hammering turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest play is hmm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hammering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, an, eh, ha, he, and hi. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in hammering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hammering 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.
hammering 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 one sense for hammering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
hammering is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hammering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hammering, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hammering 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 hammering produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.