ripsawing needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 265 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ripsawing is the highest-scoring word from ripsawing, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 265 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ripsawing — and it is ripsawing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ripsawing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with praising. For points, the strongest plays are aspiring, pairings, and praising — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ripsawing produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aspirin, raising, sparing, and swiping. For points, the strongest plays are swiping, warping, and wisping — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ripsawing turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing, raisin and rising. For points, the strongest plays are pawing and wiping — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ripsawing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gains, grips and pains. For points, the strongest play is gawps — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ripsawing produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, gain and gaps. For points, the strongest play is gawp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ripsawing turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, gap and gas. For points, the strongest plays are paw, pwn, and wap — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ripsawing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and aw. For points, the strongest play is aw — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ripsawing 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.
ripsawing is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
ripsawing is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ripsawing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ripsawing, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ripsawing 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 ripsawing produce 265 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.