sorrowing 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, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sorrowing is the highest-scoring word from sorrowing, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sorrowing — and it is sorrowing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sorrowing produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is rowings, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sorrowing turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including rowing, sowing and wooing.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sorrowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, grown and grows. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including grown, grows and owing.
Rearranging the letters in sorrowing produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grow, iron and owns. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including grow, wigs and wing.
Unscrambling sorrowing turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goo, nor and now. For points, the strongest play is wig — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sorrowing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are ow and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in sorrowing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sorrowing 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.
sorrowing 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 sorrowing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
sorrowing is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sorrowing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sorrowing, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sorrowing 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 sorrowing produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.