Hidden inside teeming sit meeting and teeming, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meeting and teeming tie for the highest Scrabble score from teeming at 10 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in teeming: one comes from rearranging its letters, and teeming itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meeting. For points, the strongest plays are meeting and teeming — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling teeming turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are meting and tegmen, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teeming. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are genet, genie, tenge, and tinge, 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 teeming produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, item, meet, mine, mint, teen, and time. For points, the strongest plays are emit, item, meet, mete, mien, mine, mint, mite, neem, teem, and time — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling teeming turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, men, met, net, ten, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are gem, meg, and mig — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in teeming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in teeming 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.
teeming 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for teeming. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
teeming is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing teeming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are meeting and teeming, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from teeming 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 teeming produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.