Hidden inside tempering sit repigment and tempering, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 236 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
repigment and tempering tie for the highest Scrabble score from tempering at 14 points. The top 10 of 236 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in tempering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tempering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are repigment and tempering, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tempering. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are metering, petering, and regiment, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tempering produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emptier and meeting. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including gripmen, impregn and perming.
Unscrambling tempering turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with empire, entire, peeing, and permit. For points, the strongest play is emping — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tempering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, green and greet. For points, the strongest plays are prime and tempi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tempering produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, germ and grip. For points, the strongest play is gimp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tempering turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get and men. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tempering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in tempering plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tempering 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.
tempering 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 two senses for tempering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
tempering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tempering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are repigment and tempering, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tempering 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 tempering produce 236 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.