ordering needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 155 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ordering is the highest-scoring word from ordering, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 155 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ordering — and it is ordering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ordering produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignored. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including ignored, eroding and grinder.
Unscrambling ordering turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignore and region. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including dinger, engird and girder.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, doing and drier. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including doing, grind and deign.
Rearranging the letters in ordering produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, done and gone. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including ding, doge and dong.
Unscrambling ordering turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and dog. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dog and god.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including do, go and id.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in ordering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ordering and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
ordering 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for ordering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ordering is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ordering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ordering, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ordering 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 ordering produce 155 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.