Hidden inside separating sit asperating and separating, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1038 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asperating and separating tie for the highest Scrabble score from separating at 13 points. The top 10 of 1038 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in separating: one comes from rearranging its letters, and separating itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with separating. For points, the strongest plays are asperating and separating — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling separating turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are paginates, repasting, and trapesing, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 43 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in separating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angriest and pageants. For points, the strongest plays are grapiest, paganise, paganist, pageants, paginate, partings, retaping, spearing, tapering, and trepangs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in separating produces 119 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with against, erasing, nastier, pageant, panties, parents, and parties. For points, the strongest plays are pageant, parangs, pargets, parings, parsing, parting, pasting, pingers, prating, rasping, reaping, spaeing, sparing, spinage, springe, tapings, and trepang — 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 separating turns up 193 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, angers, easing, eating, giants, grants, and grapes. For points, the strongest plays are agapes, gapers, gasper, genips, grapes, gripes, pagans, pagers, pangas, parang, parges, parget, paring, pinger, prangs, raping, sparge, sprang, spring, and taping — 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 292 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in separating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with again, agent, anger, apart, areas, pages, and pains. For points, the strongest plays are agape, aping, pagan, pager, pages, panga, pangs, parge, peags, pings, prang, prigs, spang, sprag, sprig, gaper, gapes, genip, grape, grasp, gripe, grips, and gript — 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 separating produces 241 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs, ants, apes, area, arts, and nags. For points, the strongest plays are page, pang, peag, pegs, pigs, ping, prig, gape, gaps, gasp, gips, and grip — 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 separating turns up 118 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, ape, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are gap, 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in separating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in separating plus one additional letter.
separating 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.
separating is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing separating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asperating and separating, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from separating 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 separating produce 1038 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 43 eight-letter words, 119 seven-letter words, 193 six-letter words, 292 five-letter words, 241 four-letter words, 118 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.