leavening needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
leavening is the highest-scoring word from leavening, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in leavening — and it is leavening itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in leavening produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with evening, leaning, and leaving. For points, the strongest plays are evangel, evening, leaving, and vealing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling leavening turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with engine. For points, the strongest plays are avenge, geneva, glaive, laving, and vagile — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leavening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alive, angel, angle, given, leave, and naive. For points, the strongest plays are ganev, gavel, given, vegan, vegie, and venge — 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 leavening produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with even, evil, gain, gave, gene, give, and lane. For points, the strongest plays are gave, give, vagi, vang, vega, and viga — 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 leavening turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, eve, gal, gee, leg, lie, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are veg and vig — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leavening. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and in. For points, the strongest plays are ag and gi — each worth 3 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 leavening plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in leavening 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.
leavening 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for leavening. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
leavening is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leavening unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is leavening, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from leavening 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 leavening produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.