following needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
following is the highest-scoring word from following, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in following — and it is following itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in following produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flowing and fooling. For points, the strongest plays are flowing, fowling, wolfing, and woofing — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling following turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with follow. For points, the strongest plays are follow and inflow — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in following. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flown and owing. For points, the strongest play is flown — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in following produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fill, flow, fool, golf, lion, long, and will. For points, the strongest plays are flow, fowl, wolf, and woof — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling following turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fog, goo, ill, log, low, now, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are fig, fog, gif, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in following. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, if, in, no, of, on, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are if, of, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in following plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in following 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.
following 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for following. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
following is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing following unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is following, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from following 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 following produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.