Hidden inside raising sit airings, arising, and raising, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
airings, arising, and raising tie for the highest Scrabble score from raising at 8 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in raising: two come from rearranging its letters, and raising itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raising. For points, the strongest plays are airings, arising, and raising — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling raising turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing, raisin, and rising. For points, the strongest plays are airing, grains, rasing, rising, and siring — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raising. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, rains, and rings. For points, the strongest plays are gains, garni, girns, gnars, grain, grans, grins, iring, ragis, rangs, rings, and signa — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in raising produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, gain, nags, rags, rain, rang, and rigs. For points, the strongest plays are agin, gain, gars, gins, girn, gnar, gran, grin, nags, ragi, rags, rang, rigs, ring, sang, sign, sing, and snag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling raising turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, gas, nag, rag, ran, rig, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are ags, gan, gar, gas, gin, gis, nag, rag, rig, sag, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raising. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in raising and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
raising 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 raising. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
raising is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raising unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are airings, arising, and raising, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from raising 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 raising produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.