puttering needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
puttering is the highest-scoring word from puttering, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in puttering — and it is puttering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in puttering. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are erupting and reputing, 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 puttering produces 12 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: petting and putting, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling puttering turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gutter and urgent. For points, the strongest plays are guinep, pignut, pinger, repugn, upgirt, and urping — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in puttering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with print, tiger, urine, and uteri. For points, the strongest plays are genip, getup, gripe, gript, purge, and unpeg — 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 puttering produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grip, pure, rent, ring, ruin, rung, and tent. For points, the strongest plays are grip, ping, prig, and pung — 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 puttering turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, gun, gut, net, nut, pen, and per. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, pig, and pug — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in puttering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, and up. For points, the strongest plays are pe, pi, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in puttering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in puttering 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.
puttering 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.
puttering is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing puttering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is puttering, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from puttering 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 puttering produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.