publishing needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 227 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
publishing is the highest-scoring word from publishing, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 227 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in publishing — and it is publishing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling publishing produces exactly one eight-letter word: blushing. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in publishing produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with publish and pushing. For points, the strongest play is bushpig — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling publishing turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with punish. For points, the strongest play is ghibli — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in publishing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lungs, plugs, suing, and using. For points, the strongest plays are blush, buhls, plush, shlub, and unhip — each 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 publishing produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bugs, buns, bush, guns, hips, hugs, and hung. For points, the strongest play is pugh — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling publishing turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with big, bug, bun, bus, gun, hip, and his. For points, the strongest plays are hip, hub, hup, and phi — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in publishing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, in, is, sh, uh, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are hi, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in publishing plus one additional letter.
publishing 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 5-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 publishing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
publishing is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing publishing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is publishing, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from publishing 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 publishing produce 227 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 17 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.