pretending needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 331 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pretending is the highest-scoring word from pretending, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 331 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in pretending — and it is pretending itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pretending 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 repenting, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entering. For points, the strongest plays are petering, preening, and repinned — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pretending produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needing, pretend, printed, renting, and tending. For points, the strongest play is pending — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pretending turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinner, ending, engine, entire, gender, intend, and intern. For points, the strongest plays are griped and pinged — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, enter, green, greet, grind, inner, and pride. For points, the strongest plays are dript, genip, gripe, gript, pined, preed, pride, pried, redip, repeg, riped, and tepid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pretending produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, diet, dine, dirt, drip, and edge. For points, the strongest plays are deep, dipt, drip, grip, pedi, peed, pend, pied, ping, and prig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pretending turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dip, end, gee, get, and net. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, gip, ped, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pretending. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pe and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
pretending 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 pretending. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
pretending is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pretending unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pretending, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pretending 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 pretending produce 331 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.