narrowing needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
narrowing is the highest-scoring word from narrowing, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in narrowing — and it is narrowing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling narrowing produces exactly one eight-letter word: arrowing. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in narrowing produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with warning. For points, the strongest plays are ingrown, warning, and warring — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling narrowing turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with narrow and owning. For points, the strongest plays are awning, owning, rowing, waning, and waring — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in narrowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, grown, organ, owing, wagon, and wrong. For points, the strongest plays are awing, gnawn, gowan, grown, owing, wagon, wigan, wrang, wring, and wrong — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in narrowing produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, grow, iron, rain, rang, ring, and warn. For points, the strongest plays are gnaw, gown, grow, and wing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling narrowing turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, air, nag, nor, now, own, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are wag and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in narrowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, aw, go, in, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 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 narrowing 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.
narrowing 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for narrowing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
narrowing is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing narrowing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is narrowing, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from narrowing 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 narrowing produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.