limiting needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
limiting is the highest-scoring word from limiting, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in limiting — and it is limiting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling limiting produces exactly one seven-letter word: milting. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in limiting and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
limiting 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 4-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 limiting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
limiting is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing limiting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is limiting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from limiting 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 limiting produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.