motivating needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
motivating is the highest-scoring word from motivating, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in motivating — and it is motivating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in motivating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with vomiting. For points, the strongest plays are motiving and vomiting — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in motivating produces 5 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: vitamin, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling motivating turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aiming, moving, timing, and voting. For points, the strongest play is moving — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in motivating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among, giant, tango, and vomit. For points, the strongest plays are mavin and vomit — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in motivating produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, gain and goat. For points, the strongest plays are vagi, vang, and viga — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling motivating turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, aim and ant. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in motivating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
motivating 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 two senses for motivating. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
motivating is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing motivating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is motivating, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from motivating 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 motivating produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.