spurning needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
spurning is the highest-scoring word from spurning, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in spurning — and it is spurning itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in spurning produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nursing. For points, the strongest plays are pruning and pursing — 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 spurning turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spring. For points, the strongest plays are pignus, spring, sprung, spuing, and urping — 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spurning. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grips, rings, ruins, suing, and using. For points, the strongest plays are grips, pings, prigs, pungs, sprig, and sprug — 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 spurning produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grip, guns, nuns, pigs, pins, rigs, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are gips, grip, pigs, ping, prig, pugs, and pung — 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 spurning turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, nun, pig, pin, rig, rip, and rug. For points, the strongest plays are gip, pig, and pug — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spurning. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pi and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in spurning plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in spurning and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
spurning 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
spurning is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing spurning unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is spurning, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from spurning 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 spurning produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.