tampering needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 501 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tampering is the highest-scoring word from tampering, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 501 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in tampering — and it is tampering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tampering. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tramping, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tampering produces 42 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tearing. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including epigram, gripman and gripmen.
Unscrambling tampering turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, magnet and parent. For points, the strongest plays are amping, emping, and magpie — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 100 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tampering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger and giant. For points, the strongest play is gramp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tampering produces 151 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, main and mate. For points, the strongest plays are gamp and gimp — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tampering turns up 100 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and air. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tampering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tampering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tampering 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.
tampering 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 4-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 tampering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
tampering is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tampering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tampering, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tampering 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 tampering produce 501 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 42 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 100 five-letter words, 151 four-letter words, 100 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.