softening needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 258 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
softening is the highest-scoring word from softening, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 258 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in softening — and it is softening itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in softening produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tension. For points, the strongest play is fenings — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling softening turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finest and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are feigns, fening, feting, fogies, gonefs, and gonifs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in softening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gifts, nines, noise, notes, often, sting, and stone. For points, the strongest plays are feign, fogie, gifts, gonef, and gonif — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in softening produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, fine, fist, fits, fogs, gets, and gift. For points, the strongest plays are figs, fogs, gifs, and gift — 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 softening turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, fit, fog, get, got, its, and net. For points, the strongest plays are fig, fog, and gif — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in softening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, if, in, is, it, no, and of. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in softening plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in softening 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.
softening 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for softening. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
softening is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing softening unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is softening, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from softening 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 softening produce 258 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.