shadowing needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 348 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shadowing is the highest-scoring word from shadowing, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 348 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in shadowing — and it is shadowing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shadowing produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with showing and washing. For points, the strongest plays are shawing, showing, and washing — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shadowing turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shadow and wagons. For points, the strongest plays are hawing, shadow, and whangs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shadowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dawns, doing and gains. For points, the strongest plays are dhows, whang, whids, and whigs — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shadowing produces 124 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, dawn and digs. For points, the strongest plays are dhow, whid, and whig — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shadowing turns up 88 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ago and aid. For points, the strongest plays are haw, how, wha, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shadowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including ah, aw and ha.
Swap a single tile in shadowing 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.
shadowing 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 1-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 shadowing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
shadowing is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shadowing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shadowing, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shadowing 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 shadowing produce 348 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 124 four-letter words, 88 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.