rarefying needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 229 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rarefying is the highest-scoring word from rarefying, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 229 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in rarefying — and it is rarefying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rarefying. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ferrying and refrying, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rarefying produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier, earring, and fearing. For points, the strongest play is fraying — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rarefying turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fairer, finger, frying, and grayer. For points, the strongest plays are faying, fringy, and frying — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rarefying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, angry, fairy, finer, gayer, grief, and range. For points, the strongest plays are faery, fairy, ferny, ferry, fiery, firry, fryer, refry, and reify — 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 rarefying produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, fair, fear, fine, fire, gain, and gray. For points, the strongest play is fray — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rarefying turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, any, are, aye, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fey, and fry — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rarefying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, if, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ef, fa, fe, if, ya, and ye — each worth 5 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 rarefying 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.
rarefying 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
rarefying is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rarefying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rarefying, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rarefying 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 rarefying produce 229 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.