Hidden inside trading sit darting and trading, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
darting and trading tie for the highest Scrabble score from trading at 9 points. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in trading: one comes from rearranging its letters, and trading itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trading. For points, the strongest plays are darting and trading — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling trading turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring, dating, and rating. For points, the strongest plays are daring, dating, and gradin — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trading. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drain, giant, grand, grant, grind, and train. For points, the strongest plays are grand and grind — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in trading produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dirt, drag, gain, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are dang, ding, drag, gadi, gird, grad, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling trading turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, ant, art, dig, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trading. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, 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.
Swap a single tile in trading 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.
trading 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for trading. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
trading is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trading unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are darting and trading, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trading 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 trading produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.