steadying needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 489 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
steadying is the highest-scoring word from steadying, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 489 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in steadying — and it is steadying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steadying. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is yeasting, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in steadying produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with datings, destiny and instead. For points, the strongest plays are dingeys and dyeings — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling steadying turns up 57 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, dating and design. For points, the strongest plays are dingey, dyeing, and dyings — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steadying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aside and dates. For points, the strongest plays are dingy, dying, and sedgy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in steadying produces 158 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages and aids. For points, the strongest play is edgy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling steadying turns up 96 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and aid. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including day, dye and gay.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steadying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in steadying 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.
steadying 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 steadying. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
steadying is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steadying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is steadying, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from steadying 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 steadying produce 489 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 57 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 158 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.