nidifying needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nidifying is the highest-scoring word from nidifying, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in nidifying — and it is nidifying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nidifying produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finding. For points, the strongest play is dignify — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nidifying turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig. For points, the strongest plays are dif, fid, fig, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in nidifying plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nidifying 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.
nidifying 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
nidifying is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nidifying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nidifying, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nidifying 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 nidifying produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.