Hidden inside swearing sit resawing and swearing, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 327 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
resawing and swearing tie for the highest Scrabble score from swearing at 12 points. The top 10 of 327 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in swearing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and swearing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with swearing. For points, the strongest plays are resawing and swearing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in swearing produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erasing and wearing. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including wearing, earwigs and gnawers.
Unscrambling swearing turns up 40 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, answer and easing. For points, 14 words tie at 10 points, including sewing, aweing and earwig.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swearing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, earns and gains. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including swing, wings and awing.
Rearranging the letters in swearing produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, airs and earn. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including grew, wigs and wing.
Unscrambling swearing turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are wag and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in swearing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in swearing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in swearing 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.
swearing 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 two senses for swearing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
swearing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing swearing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are resawing and swearing, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from swearing 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 swearing produce 327 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 40 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.