studying needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-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.
studying is the highest-scoring word from studying, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in studying — and it is studying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling studying produces exactly one seven-letter word: dusting. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling studying turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nudity. For points, the strongest play is dyings — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in studying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dying, sting, study, stung, suing, tying, and units. For points, the strongest plays are dingy, dungy, and dying — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in studying produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with digs, dust, duty, guns, guts, guys, and nuts. For points, the strongest plays are duty, guys, tidy, and undy — 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 studying turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dug, gun, gut, guy, ids, and its. For points, the strongest play is guy — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in studying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are gi and id — each worth 3 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 studying 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.
studying 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 studying. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
studying is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing studying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is studying, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from studying 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 studying produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.