ongoing needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ongoing is the highest-scoring word from ongoing, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in ongoing — and it is ongoing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ongoing turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is noggin, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ongoing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with going and onion. For points, the strongest play is going — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ongoing produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noon. For points, the strongest plays are gogo, gong, and nogg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ongoing turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig and goo. For points, the strongest plays are gig and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ongoing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in ongoing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ongoing and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
ongoing 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 one sense for ongoing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ongoing is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ongoing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ongoing, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ongoing 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 ongoing produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.