Hidden inside temping sit pigment and temping, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pigment and temping tie for the highest Scrabble score from temping at 12 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in temping: one comes from rearranging its letters, and temping itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pigment and temping, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temping. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is tempi, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in temping produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, mine and mint. For points, the strongest play is gimp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling temping turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, men and met. For points, the strongest play is imp — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temping. 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 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in temping plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in temping 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.
temping 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.
temping is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing temping unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are pigment and temping, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from temping 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 temping produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.