Hidden inside steaming sit mangiest, mintages, misagent and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 389 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mangiest, mintages, misagent and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from steaming at 11 points. The top 10 of 389 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in steaming: three come from rearranging its letters, and steaming itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with steaming. For points, the strongest plays are mangiest, mintages, misagent, and steaming — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in steaming produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with magnets, seating, and teasing. For points, the strongest plays are enigmas, gamiest, gamines, magnets, masting, matings, mintage, seaming, sigmate, teaming, and tegmina — 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 steaming turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, easing, eating, giants, images, and magnet. For points, the strongest plays are ageism, enigma, gamest, gamine, gamins, gasmen, images, magnet, manges, mating, meting, stigma, and taming — 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 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steaming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, gains, games, gates, giant, image, and items. For points, the strongest plays are agism, games, gamin, image, mages, mange, and sigma — 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 steaming produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, aims, amen, ants, east, eats, and gain. For points, the strongest plays are game, gams, gems, mage, magi, mags, mega, megs, and migs — 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 steaming turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim, ant, ate, eat, gas, and get. For points, the strongest plays are gam, gem, mag, meg, and mig — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steaming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in steaming 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.
steaming 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 steaming. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
steaming is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steaming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mangiest, mintages, misagent, and steaming, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from steaming 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 steaming produce 389 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.