Hidden inside reporting sit portering and reporting, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 277 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
portering and reporting tie for the highest Scrabble score from reporting at 12 points. The top 10 of 277 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in reporting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reporting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reporting. For points, the strongest plays are portering and reporting — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reporting produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with printer. For points, the strongest plays are perigon, pirogen, pongier, and porting — each 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 reporting turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignore, pigeon, region, and report. For points, the strongest plays are epigon, griper, groper, opting, perogi, pigeon, pinger, poring, roping, and toping — 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 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reporting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, point, print, and tiger. For points, the strongest plays are genip, gipon, gripe, gript, grope, oping, pengo, pingo, pirog, and prong — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in reporting produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gone, grip, into, iron, nope, note, and open. For points, the strongest plays are gorp, grip, ping, pong, prig, and prog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reporting turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get, got, net, nor, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are gip, peg, and pig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reporting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, it, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reporting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reporting 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.
reporting 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 reporting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
reporting is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reporting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are portering and reporting, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reporting 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 reporting produce 277 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.