raisings needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
raisings is the highest-scoring word from raisings, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in raisings — and it is raisings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in raisings produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raising and raisins. For points, the strongest plays are airings, arising, raising, and risings — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling raisings turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing, assign, raisin, and rising. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including airing, assign and rising.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raisings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, grass and rains. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including gains, grass and rings.
Rearranging the letters in raisings produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, gain and nags. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including gain, nags and rags.
Unscrambling raisings turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ass and gas. For points, 11 words tie at 4 points, including gas, nag and rag.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raisings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in raisings and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
raisings 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for raisings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
raisings is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raisings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is raisings, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from raisings 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 raisings produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.