entering needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
entering is the highest-scoring word from entering, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in entering — and it is entering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in entering produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with renting. For points, the strongest plays are integer, renting, ringent, and treeing — 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 entering turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with engine, entire, and intern. For points, the strongest plays are engine, engirt, gerent, ginner, regent, and teeing — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, green, greet, inner, and tiger. For points, the strongest plays are egret, genet, genie, genre, green, greet, regie, reign, renig, tenge, tiger, 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 entering produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gene, nine, rent, ring, teen, tire, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are eger, gene, gent, gien, girn, girt, gite, gree, grin, grit, ring, 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 entering turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, get, net, rig, ten, tie, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are eng, erg, gee, gen, get, gie, gin, git, neg, reg, rig, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in entering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 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 entering and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
entering 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 two senses for entering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
entering is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing entering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is entering, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from entering 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 entering produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.