Hidden inside tidying sit dignity and tidying, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dignity and tidying tie for the highest Scrabble score from tidying at 12 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tidying: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tidying itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dignity. For points, the strongest plays are dignity and tidying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tidying produces exactly one six-letter word: tiding. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tidying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dying and tying. For points, the strongest plays are dingy and dying — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tidying produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tiny. For points, the strongest play is tidy — 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 tidying turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig and tin. For points, the strongest play is yin — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tidying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are gi and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in tidying plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tidying 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.
tidying 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
tidying is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tidying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dignity and tidying, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tidying 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 tidying produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.