longing needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
longing is the highest-scoring word from longing, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in longing — and it is longing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling longing turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are noggin and ogling, 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in longing. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: going, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in longing produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lion and long. For points, the strongest plays are gong and nogg — 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 longing turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig, log, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are 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 longing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in longing 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.
longing 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 longing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
longing is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing longing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is longing, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from longing 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 longing produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.