reviewing 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, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reviewing is the highest-scoring word from reviewing, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in reviewing — and it is reviewing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reviewing produces 8 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: viewing, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reviewing turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with review, viewer, virgin, and wiener. For points, the strongest play is wiving — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reviewing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii, given and green. For points, the strongest play is wiver — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reviewing produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, ever and gene. For points, the strongest plays are view and wive — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reviewing turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, gee and new. For points, the strongest plays are veg, vig, and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reviewing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, in, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in reviewing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reviewing 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.
reviewing 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.
reviewing is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reviewing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is reviewing, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from reviewing 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 reviewing produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.