Hidden inside portending sit portending and protending, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 495 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
portending and protending tie for the highest Scrabble score from portending at 14 points. The top 10 of 495 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in portending: one comes from rearranging its letters, and portending itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are portending and protending, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling portending 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 words are deporting and pondering, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portending. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deponing and ridgetop, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in portending produces 44 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignored, opening and pointed. For points, the strongest plays are pending, podgier, ponding, and pronged — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling portending turns up 91 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinner, editor and ending. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including doping, griped and groped.
There are 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, doing and grind. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including pride, depot and doper.
Rearranging the letters in portending produces 127 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dine and dirt. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including drip, drop and grip.
Unscrambling portending turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and dip. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including dip, pig and dep.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
portending 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.
portending is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing portending unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are portending and protending, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from portending 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 portending produce 495 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 44 seven-letter words, 91 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 127 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.