surviving 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, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
surviving is the highest-scoring word from surviving, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in surviving — and it is surviving itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling surviving produces exactly one seven-letter word: virgins. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling surviving turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rising and virgin. For points, the strongest plays are riving, virgin, and vising — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in surviving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rings, ruins and suing. For points, the strongest play is virus — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in surviving produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, rigs and ring. For points, the strongest plays are guvs, vigs, and vugs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling surviving turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, rig and rug. For points, the strongest plays are guv, vig, and vug — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
surviving 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for surviving. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
surviving is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing surviving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is surviving, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from surviving 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 surviving produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.