Hidden inside measuring sit geraniums and measuring, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 583 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
geraniums and measuring tie for the highest Scrabble score from measuring at 12 points. The top 10 of 583 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in measuring: one comes from rearranging its letters, and measuring itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with measuring. For points, the strongest plays are geraniums and measuring — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measuring. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are geranium, resuming, and smearing, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in measuring produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amusing, erasing, manures, remains, and seminar. For points, the strongest plays are amusing, armings, engrams, enigmas, gamines, germans, germina, gisarme, imagers, mangers, mangier, margins, mirages, murages, reaming, and seaming — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling measuring turns up 91 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, argues, armies, easing, genius, guinea, and images. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, arming, engram, enigma, gamers, gamier, gamine, gamins, gasmen, german, granum, grimes, grumes, imager, images, maigre, manger, manges, marges, margin, mauger, maugre, mirage, murage, muring, musing, ragmen, and regnum — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 156 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measuring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, anger, argue, earns, gains, games, and germs. For points, the strongest plays are agism, gamer, games, gamin, gaums, germs, geums, grams, grime, grume, image, mages, magus, mange, marge, margs, mungs, regma, sagum, and sigma — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in measuring produces 169 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, airs, amen, anus, arms, and main. For points, the strongest plays are mage, magi, mags, marg, mega, megs, migs, mugs, mung, smug, game, gams, gaum, gems, germ, geum, gram, grim, grum, and gums — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling measuring turns up 99 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, air, are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, gum, mag, meg, mig, and mug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in measuring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, is, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in measuring plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in measuring 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.
measuring 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 one sense for measuring. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
measuring is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing measuring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are geraniums and measuring, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from measuring 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 measuring produce 583 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 91 six-letter words, 156 five-letter words, 169 four-letter words, 99 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.