Unscramble DEZINCING and you have 85 words, DEZINCING itself among them: it scores 22 in Scrabble and 26 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
D2E1Z10I1N12C34I1N12G23
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from DEZINCING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 3 with 7, 13 with 6, 10 with 5, 20 with 4, 27 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of DEZINCING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with DE · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
DEZINCING first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. DEZINCING is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEZINCING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 85) | 68 | 85 | 61 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 17 of them: INCEDING, ZE, CIDING, DINIC, CIDE, INGINE, CID, DEG, GINN, NIED, DEI, IDE and 5 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: ZINE, ZEN, CIG, DENI, INNIE, NEG and GI.
This word takes every letter of DEZINCING plus a single extra one.