Unscramble DEADENING and you have 165 words, DEADENING itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. DEIGNED, DEADING and DEEDING are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from DEADENING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 7 with 7, 26 with 6, 21 with 5, 48 with 4, 45 with 3 and 17 with 2. None has 8 letters.
ADDING, DANGED and DINGED share the top score of 9 among the 6-letter words made with DEADENING letters. ENGINE, ENDING and INDEED are the ones most people know.
Among 48 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DEADENING, the top score is 6, reached by 16. NEED, IDEA and DEAD are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of DEADENING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with DE · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
What DEADENING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DEADENING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEADENING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 165) | 117 | 165 | 109 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 48 of them: DEADING, DAEING, DAINED, DEEING, GANNED, IDEAED, DINNAE, EANING, ENNAGE, DAINE, DEID, DIANE and 36 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: GENNED, INNAGE, DENI, GEAN, DAN, NEG, DA and GI.
This word takes every letter of DEADENING plus a single extra one.