lingering needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lingering is the highest-scoring word from lingering, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in lingering — and it is lingering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingering. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nigglier and reigning, 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 lingering produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ringing. For points, the strongest plays are gingeli, girning, niggler, and ringing — 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 lingering turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lining. For points, the strongest plays are gieing, ginger, leggin, and niggle — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii and inner. For points, the strongest plays are genii, ingle, iring, liger, reign, and renig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lingering produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girl, line, nine, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are gleg and grig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lingering turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, gig, leg, lie, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lingering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in lingering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lingering 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.
lingering 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 lingering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
lingering is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lingering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lingering, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lingering 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 lingering produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.