surveying needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 227 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
surveying is the highest-scoring word from surveying, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 227 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in surveying — and it is surveying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in surveying produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with serving. For points, the strongest plays are gurneys, serving, syringe, and versing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling surveying turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genius and singer. For points, the strongest plays are survey and vinery — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surveying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with given, gives, nurse, rings, risen, ruins, and siren. For points, the strongest plays are gyves and vying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in surveying produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with give, grey, guns, guys, rigs, ring, and rise. For points, the strongest play is gyve — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling surveying turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, guy, rig, rug, run, sin, and sir. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surveying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and us. For points, the strongest play is ye — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in surveying plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in surveying 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.
surveying 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 one sense for surveying. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
surveying is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing surveying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is surveying, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from surveying 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 surveying produce 227 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.