widening 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, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
widening is the highest-scoring word from widening, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in widening — and it is widening itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in widening produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with winding. For points, the strongest plays are dwining, wending, and winding — 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 widening turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dining, ending, and winged. For points, the strongest plays are dewing and winged — 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genii. For points, the strongest plays are dwine, gwine, widen, and wined — 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 widening produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, nine, wide, wind, wine, and wing. For points, the strongest plays are wend, wide, 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 widening turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, new, wig, and win. For points, the strongest plays are dew, wed, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in widening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, in, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each 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 widening 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.
widening 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 three senses for widening. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
widening is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing widening unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is widening, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from widening 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 widening produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.