rerigging 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, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rerigging is the highest-scoring word from rerigging, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in rerigging — and it is rerigging itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rerigging produces exactly one seven-letter word: rigging. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rerigging turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are egging and igging, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rerigging turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, gig, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in rerigging plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rerigging 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.
rerigging 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.
rerigging is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rerigging unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rerigging, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rerigging 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 rerigging produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.