remaining needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 210 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
remaining is the highest-scoring word from remaining, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 210 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in remaining — and it is remaining itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remaining. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are imaginer, inarming, migraine, and renaming, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in remaining produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, imagine, meaning, and raining. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including imagine, meaning and germina.
Unscrambling remaining turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aiming, airing and manner. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including aiming, naming and arming.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remaining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, genii and image. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including image, gamer and gamin.
Rearranging the letters in remaining produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, earn and gain. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including game, germ and gram.
Unscrambling remaining turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and air. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remaining. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, in, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
Swap a single tile in remaining 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.
remaining 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 4-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 remaining. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
remaining is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remaining unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is remaining, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from remaining 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 remaining produce 210 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.