Hidden inside rewarding sit redrawing and rewarding, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 321 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
redrawing and rewarding tie for the highest Scrabble score from rewarding at 14 points. The top 10 of 321 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in rewarding: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rewarding itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rewarding. For points, the strongest plays are redrawing and rewarding — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rewarding produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier, drawing, earring, grander, reading, and wearing. For points, the strongest plays are drawing, redwing, warding, windage, and wringed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rewarding turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with danger, daring, drawer, errand, gained, garden, and grader. For points, the strongest plays are dawing, dewing, gnawed, wading, and winged — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rewarding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, anger, diner, drain, drawn, drier, and grade. For points, the strongest play is waged — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rewarding produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, dawn, dear, dine, drag, and draw. For points, the strongest plays are awed, dawn, draw, drew, gnaw, grew, wade, wadi, wage, wand, ward, wend, wide, wind, and wing — each 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 rewarding turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid, air, and, are, die, and dig. For points, the strongest plays are daw, dew, wad, wag, wed, and wig — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rewarding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, aw, ew, id, in, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — 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 rewarding 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.
rewarding 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 2-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 rewarding. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
rewarding is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rewarding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are redrawing and rewarding, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rewarding 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 rewarding produce 321 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.