targeting needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 254 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
targeting is the highest-scoring word from targeting, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 254 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in targeting — and it is targeting itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in targeting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treating. For points, the strongest plays are gnattier and treating — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in targeting produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with getting and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are gearing, getting, grating, and naggier — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling targeting turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, rating, and target. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including ageing, gaeing and ganger.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in targeting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, aging and anger. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including aging, agger and aggie.
Rearranging the letters in targeting produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain and gang. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including gang, gage and giga.
Unscrambling targeting turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air and ant. For points, the strongest plays are egg, gag, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in targeting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in targeting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in targeting 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.
targeting 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.
targeting is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing targeting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is targeting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from targeting 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 targeting produce 254 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.