Hidden inside warding sit drawing and warding, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drawing and warding tie for the highest Scrabble score from warding at 12 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in warding: one comes from rearranging its letters, and warding itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drawing. For points, the strongest plays are drawing and warding — 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 warding turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring. For points, the strongest plays are dawing and wading — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in warding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drain, drawn, grand, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are awing, diwan, drawn, wigan, wrang, and wring — 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 warding produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dawn, drag, draw, gain, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are dawn, draw, gnaw, wadi, wand, ward, wind, and wing — 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 warding turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, dig, nag, rag, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are daw, wad, wag, and wig — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in warding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, aw, id, and in. For points, the strongest play is aw — worth 5 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 warding 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.
warding 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.
warding is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing warding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drawing and warding, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from warding 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 warding produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.