trimming needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
trimming is the highest-scoring word from trimming, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in trimming — and it is trimming itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in trimming produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is rimming, 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 trimming turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with timing. For points, the strongest play is miming — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trimming. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is minim, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in trimming produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mint, ring, and trim. For points, the strongest play is grim — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling trimming turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rig and tin. For points, the strongest play is mim — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trimming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in and it. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 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 trimming 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.
trimming 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for trimming. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
trimming is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trimming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is trimming, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from trimming 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 trimming produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.