Unscramble BARNEYING and you have 256 words, BARNEYING itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from BARNEYING split into 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 8, 16 with 7, 34 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 22 with 2.
ABYING and BAYING share the top score of 12 among the 6-letter words you get when you unscramble BARNEYING. NEARBY, BANNER and BINARY are the ones most people know.
Among the 5-letter words from BARNEYING, BEIGY and BINGY tie for first at 11 points. BEING, RANGE and BRING are everyday picks.
GABY and GYBE share the top score of 10 among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BARNEYING. YEAR, BEAR and GRAY are the ones most people know.
Among 60 3-letter words from BARNEYING, the top score is 8, reached by 4. ARE, ANY and BIG are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of BARNEYING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with BA · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by ABYEING and BRAYING (13 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: BARNEYING is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARNEYING itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 256) | 197 | 256 | 182 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 59 of them: BARNEYING, BERAYING, BREYING, EBAYING, RENAYING, BINGY, BRINNY, GINNERY, RENYING, BEANY, BERAY, AYGRE and 47 more. Words With Friends* skips 15 of them: ABYEING, BARNEY, BARNING, BAYER, GYNIE, YAGE, BINER, BING, INNAGE, YAG, RABI, YER and 3 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of BARNEYING and one more.