ossifying needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ossifying is the highest-scoring word from ossifying, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ossifying — and it is ossifying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ossifying 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 signify, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ossifying turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ignify, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ossifying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with signs, sings, and songs. For points, the strongest plays are gonif, gynos, yogin, and yogis — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ossifying produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fogs, sign and sing. For points, the strongest play is fogy — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ossifying turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fog, sin, son, and soy. For points, the strongest play is foy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ossifying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, if and in. For points, the strongest plays are if, of, oy, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
ossifying 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ossifying is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ossifying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ossifying, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ossifying 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 ossifying produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.