purchasing 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, 580 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
purchasing is the highest-scoring word from purchasing, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 580 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in purchasing — and it is purchasing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling purchasing 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 scarphing, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purchasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crashing and scraping. For points, the strongest plays are graphics and parching — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in purchasing produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cashing, causing and chasing. For points, the strongest play is graphic — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling purchasing turns up 75 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring, chains and chairs. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including capish, chirps and painch.
There are 146 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purchasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chain, chair and chins. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including chips, pinch and punch.
Rearranging the letters in purchasing produces 171 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, anus and argh. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, and chip — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling purchasing turns up 98 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ash and can. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including hip, chi and hap.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in purchasing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ha and hi.
purchasing 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 purchasing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
purchasing is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing purchasing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is purchasing, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from purchasing 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 purchasing produce 580 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 75 six-letter words, 146 five-letter words, 171 four-letter words, 98 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.