qualifying needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 26 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
qualifying is the highest-scoring word from qualifying, worth 26 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in qualifying — and it is qualifying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 26 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling qualifying produces exactly one eight-letter word: quailing. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in qualifying produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with failing and qualify. For points, the strongest plays are liquify and qualify — each worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling qualifying turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with filing, flying, and laying. For points, the strongest play is yanqui — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in qualifying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with final and lying. For points, the strongest play is quail — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in qualifying produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fail, flag, gain, lung, nail, and ugly. For points, the strongest play is quay — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling qualifying turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with any, fan, flu, fly, fun, gal, and gay. For points, the strongest play is qua — worth 12 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 qualifying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, if, and in. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
qualifying 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 3-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 qualifying. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 26 points on a Scrabble board:
qualifying is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing qualifying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is qualifying, worth 26 points in Scrabble, and no other word from qualifying 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 qualifying produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.