Unscramble ANALYZING and you have 135 words, ANALYZING itself among them: it scores 22 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, LAZYING and ZANYING lead with 20 points. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from ANALYZING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 4 with 7, 11 with 6, 32 with 5, 44 with 4, 29 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 8 letters.
GLAZY, ZINGY and ZYGAL are the top 5-letter words you get when you unscramble ANALYZING, 18 points each. AGAIN, LYING and ALIGN will look familiar.
GAZY and ZYGA share the top score of 17 among the 4-letter words from ANALYZING. GAIN, NAIL and LAZY are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of ANALYZING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with AN · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
What ANALYZING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ANALYZING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANALYZING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 135) | 103 | 135 | 95 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ZANYING, NYANZA, ZYGAL, GAZY, ZYGA, GAZAL, ZIGAN, ZILA, ALAYING, INYALA, NYING, GYAL and 20 more, 32 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ZA, LAYIN, LINNY, LIGNAN, YAG, NAGA, NALA and GI, 8 in all.