hesitatingly needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hesitatingly is the highest-scoring word from hesitatingly, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in hesitatingly — and it is hesitatingly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hesitatingly produces 3 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ethylating, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hesitatingly turns up 17 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hygienist and stithying, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 53 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hesitatingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genitals, lightens, lightest, settling, and stealing. For points, the strongest plays are hygieist and nylghais — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hesitatingly produces 151 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atheist, english, hailing, healing, heating, hitting, and lasting. For points, the strongest plays are ghastly, hayings, hygeist, lengthy, nightly, nylghai, shingly, sightly, thegnly, tightly, and tything — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hesitatingly turns up 211 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, aliens, angels, angles, easily, easing, and eating. For points, the strongest plays are eighty, haying, nighty, shying, and thingy — 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 256 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hesitatingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aisle, alien, angel, angle, saint, and salty. For points, the strongest play is hying — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hesitatingly produces 258 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ants, east, easy, eats, gain, and gals. For points, the strongest plays are ashy, hays, hiya, hyla, hyte, nyah, shay, they, and yeah — 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 hesitatingly turns up 131 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ant, any, ash, ate, aye, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are hay, hey, shy, thy, yah, and yeh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hesitatingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, ay, eh, and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ay, eh, ha, he, hi, sh, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
hesitatingly 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 1-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 hesitatingly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
hesitatingly is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hesitatingly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hesitatingly, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hesitatingly 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 hesitatingly produce 1113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 3 ten-letter words, 17 nine-letter words, 53 eight-letter words, 151 seven-letter words, 211 six-letter words, 256 five-letter words, 258 four-letter words, 131 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.