Hidden inside tearing sit granite, gratine, ingrate and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
granite, gratine, ingrate and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tearing at 8 points. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in tearing: four come from rearranging its letters, and tearing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tearing. For points, the strongest plays are granite, gratine, ingrate, tangier, and tearing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tearing turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating and rating. For points, the strongest plays are aigret, argent, earing, eating, engirt, gainer, gaiter, garnet, gratin, ingate, rating, reagin, regain, regina, tagine, taring, and triage — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tearing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, anger, giant, grant, great, range, and tiger. For points, the strongest plays are agent, anger, garni, gater, giant, grain, grant, grate, great, range, regna, reign, renig, retag, targe, terga, tiger, tinge, and tragi — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tearing produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gate, near, neat, rage, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are ager, agin, areg, gaen, gain, gait, gane, gate, gean, gear, gent, geta, gien, girn, girt, gite, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, rage, ragi, rang, ring, tang, ting, and trig — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tearing turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gat, gen, get, gie, gin, git, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, tag, and teg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tearing. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
45 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tearing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tearing and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
tearing 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 tearing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tearing is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tearing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are granite, gratine, ingrate, tangier, and tearing, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tearing 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 tearing produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.