yielding 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, 97 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
yielding is the highest-scoring word from yielding, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 97 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in yielding — and it is yielding itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in yielding 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 dingily, 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 yielding turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dyeing. For points, the strongest plays are dingey, dyeing, and edgily — 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 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yielding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dying, genii, lined, and lying. For points, the strongest plays are dingy, dying, and ledgy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yielding produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, deny, dine, lend, lied, and line. For points, the strongest play is edgy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yielding turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, dye, end, led, leg, and lid. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dye, and gey — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yielding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. For points, the strongest play is ye — 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 yielding 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.
yielding 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.
Dictionaries record five senses for yielding. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
yielding is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yielding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yielding, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from yielding 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 yielding produce 97 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.