midwiving needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
midwiving is the highest-scoring word from midwiving, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in midwiving — and it is midwiving itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in midwiving produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mind, wind, and wing. For points, the strongest plays are wind and wing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling midwiving turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, wig, and win. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in midwiving 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.
midwiving 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.
midwiving is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing midwiving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is midwiving, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from midwiving 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 midwiving produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.