knowing needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
knowing is the highest-scoring word from knowing, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in knowing — and it is knowing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling knowing produces exactly one six-letter word: owning. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with known and owing. For points, the strongest play is known — 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 knowing produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with king, know, wing, and wink. For points, the strongest play is gowk — 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 knowing turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, now, own, wig, win, and won. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, ok, on, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in knowing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in knowing 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.
knowing 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 five senses for knowing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
knowing is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing knowing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is knowing, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from knowing 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 knowing produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.