offending 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, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
offending is the highest-scoring word from offending, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in offending — and it is offending itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in offending produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is doffing, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling offending turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ending and offend. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including offend, dieoff and effing.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in offending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing. For points, the strongest plays are fifed and offed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in offending produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, done and find. For points, the strongest plays are diff and doff — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling offending turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and dog. For points, the strongest plays are eff, iff, and off — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in offending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in offending plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in offending 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.
offending 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 one sense for offending. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
offending is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing offending unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is offending, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from offending 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 offending produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.