Hidden inside tendgin sit denting and tending, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
TENDGIN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DENTING and TENDING.
denting and tending tie for the highest Scrabble score from tendgin at 9 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in tendgin produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tending. For points, the strongest plays are denting and tending — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tendgin turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ending and intend. For points, the strongest plays are ending, ginned, nidget, and tinged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tendgin. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deign and dinge, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tendgin produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dine and edit. For points, the strongest plays are ding and gied — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tendgin turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and end. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tendgin. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tendgin plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tendgin 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are denting and tending, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tendgin 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 tendgin produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.