Unscramble AWARDING and you have 162 words, AWARDING itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, DRAWING, WARDING and ADAWING lead with 12 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from AWARDING by length: 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 12 with 6, 30 with 5, 60 with 4, 42 with 3 and 13 with 2.
DWANG tops the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble AWARDING at 10 points; next come AWARD and AWING on 9. AGAIN, GRAND and DRAWN will look familiar.
GAWD scores highest among the 4-letter words from AWARDING at 9 points, ahead of ADAW and DAWN on 8. RING, WIND and GAIN are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of AWARDING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with AW · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
The meaning of AWARDING, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
AWARDING works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWARDING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 162) | 124 | 162 | 117 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
38 of the 162 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ADAWING, WARDIAN, DWANG, RAWING, WARAGI, GAWD, ADAW, ARGAND, AWARN, WAID, WANG, DARGA and 26 more. 7 of the 162 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: GARDAI, GARDA, NAGA, DAN, DA, GI and RAI.
Each word below uses all the letters of AWARDING and one more.