Hidden inside altering sit alerting, altering, integral and 3 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 361 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alerting, altering, integral and 4 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from altering at 9 points. The top 10 of 361 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 6 eight-letter words hiding in altering: five come from rearranging its letters, and altering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altering, relating, and triangle. For points, the strongest plays are alerting, altering, integral, relating, tanglier, and triangle — each 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 altering produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tearing. For points, the strongest plays are aligner, atingle, elating, engrail, gelatin, genital, granite, gratine, ingrate, nargile, realign, reginal, ringlet, tagline, tangier, tangler, tearing, and tingler — 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 altering turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating and rating. For points, the strongest plays are aiglet, aigret, angler, argent, earing, eating, engirt, gainer, gaiter, garnet, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, glaire, gratin, ingate, ligate, linage, linger, rating, reagin, regain, regilt, regina, regnal, tagine, tangle, taring, tergal, tingle, and triage — 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 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, alert, alien, alter, angel, anger, and angle. For points, the strongest plays are agent, agile, aglet, algin, align, angel, anger, angle, argil, argle, garni, gater, giant, glair, glare, glean, glint, gnarl, grail, grain, grant, grate, great, ingle, lager, large, legit, liang, ligan, liger, linga, range, regal, regna, reign, renig, retag, targe, terga, tiger, tinge, and tragi — 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 altering produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gate, girl, lane, late, and lean. For points, the strongest plays are ager, agin, areg, egal, gaen, gain, gait, gale, gane, gate, gean, gear, gelt, gent, geta, gien, gilt, girl, girn, girt, gite, glen, glia, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, grin, grit, lang, ling, rage, ragi, rang, ring, tang, 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 altering turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, air, ant, are, art, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are age, eng, erg, gae, gal, gan, gar, gat, gel, gen, get, gie, gin, git, lag, leg, nag, neg, rag, reg, rig, tag, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — 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 altering 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.
altering 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 one sense for altering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
altering is one of six eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing altering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alerting, altering, integral, relating, tanglier, and triangle, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from altering 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 altering produce 361 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 6 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.