improving 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, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
improving is the highest-scoring word from improving, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in improving — and it is improving itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in improving produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: proving, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling improving turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with improv, moving, origin, and virgin. For points, the strongest play is improv — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in improving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin and minor. For points, the strongest plays are impro, primi, primo, and vigor — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in improving produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grip, iron and porn. For points, the strongest play is gimp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling improving turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mop, nor and pig. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in improving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and no. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including mi, mo and om.
Swap a single tile in improving 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.
improving 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 5-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 improving. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
improving is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing improving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is improving, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from improving 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 improving produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.