untidying needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
untidying is the highest-scoring word from untidying, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in untidying — and it is untidying itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in untidying produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dignity. For points, the strongest plays are dignity, tidying, and undying — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling untidying turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dining, nudity, and tuning. For points, the strongest plays are nudity, tyning, and untidy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in untidying. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dying and tying. For points, the strongest plays are dingy, dungy, and dying — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in untidying produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duty, tiny, and unit. For points, the strongest plays are duty, tidy, and undy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling untidying turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dug and gun. For points, the strongest play is guy — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in untidying. 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.
Swap a single tile in untidying and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
untidying 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.
untidying is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing untidying unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is untidying, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from untidying 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 untidying produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.