Hidden inside performing sit performing and preforming, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 298 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
performing and preforming tie for the highest Scrabble score from performing at 18 points. The top 10 of 298 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in performing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and performing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with performing. For points, the strongest plays are performing and preforming — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling performing turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is preinform, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in performing. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are informer, reinform, and reniform, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in performing produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with foreign, forming, and perform. For points, the strongest plays are perform and preform — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling performing turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finger, firmer and former. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including firmer, former and inform.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in performing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, gnome and grief. For points, the strongest plays are fermi and forme — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in performing produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire and firm. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including firm, form and from.
Unscrambling performing turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, fog and for. For points, the strongest plays are fem and fop — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in performing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, if and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
performing 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 performing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
performing is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing performing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are performing and preforming, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from performing 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 performing produce 298 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.