pestering needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 443 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pestering is the highest-scoring word from pestering, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 443 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in pestering — and it is pestering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pestering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steering. For points, the strongest plays are petering, prestige, speering, and steeping — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pestering produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entries, present, and resting. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including peering, pingers and preeing.
Unscrambling pestering turns up 83 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enters, entire and greets. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including peeing, spring and genips.
There are 135 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pestering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, genes and green. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including grips, genip and gripe.
Rearranging the letters in pestering produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and pees. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including pigs, grip and pegs.
Unscrambling pestering turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get and its. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pestering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pestering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pestering 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.
pestering 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 pestering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
pestering is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pestering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pestering, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pestering 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 pestering produce 443 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 83 six-letter words, 135 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.