promising needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 241 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
promising is the highest-scoring word from promising, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 241 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in promising — and it is promising itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in promising. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imposing and primings, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in promising produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with origins. For points, the strongest plays are impings, priming, and romping — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling promising turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins, origin, posing, prison, rising, and spring. For points, the strongest plays are imping and moping — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in promising. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grips, groin, irons, minor, porns, proms, and rings. For points, the strongest play is gimps — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in promising produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grip, iron, mops, pigs, pins, porn, and prom. For points, the strongest play is gimp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling promising turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mop, nor, pig, pin, pro, rig, and rip. For points, the strongest plays are imp, mop, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in promising. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mo, om, op, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in promising plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in promising 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.
promising 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 two senses for promising. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
promising is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing promising unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is promising, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from promising 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 promising produce 241 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.