Hidden inside refining sit infringe and refining, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
infringe and refining tie for the highest Scrabble score from refining at 12 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in refining: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refining itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are infringe and refining, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in refining produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is finnier, 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 refining turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finger and firing. For points, the strongest plays are fening, finger, fining, firing, and fringe — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, genii, grief, and inner. For points, the strongest plays are feign and grief — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in refining produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire, nine, and ring. For points, the strongest play is frig — 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 refining turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rig. For points, the strongest plays are fig and gif — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — 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 refining 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.
refining 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 one sense for refining. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
refining is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refining unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are infringe and refining, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refining 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 refining produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.