Unscramble INVERTING to get 163 words. INVERTING itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 17 in Words With Friends. RIVETING and VENTRING are the best of the shorter words, at 12 points. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from INVERTING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 4 with 8, 22 with 7, 26 with 6, 25 with 5, 41 with 4, 34 with 3 and 10 with 2.
8 of 22 7-letter words in INVERTING tie at 11 points; none scores more. RENTING and VENTING will look familiar.
Of the 26 6-letter words from INVERTING, 5 score 10 points, the group's best. VIRGIN, INVITE and INTERN are the ones most people know.
GIVEN, GIVER and VIRGE are the top 5-letter words you get when you unscramble INVERTING, 9 points each. INNER, INTER and TIGER will look familiar.
Among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble INVERTING, GIVE leads with 8 points, then NEVI and RIVE on 7. RING, RENT and NINE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of INVERTING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with IN · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
INVERTING first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept INVERTING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| INVERTING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 163) | 125 | 162 | 115 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
37 of the 163 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: VENTRING, RIEVING, VERTING, VINTING, INVENIT, VIRING, VIRENT, VIRGE, TERNING, TIGRINE, VINER, ENRING and 25 more. 10 of the 163 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: INVERTIN, INTEGRIN, VIN, GITE, INNIE, NINER, NEG, TEIN, GI and TE. 1 of the 163 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ITER.
These 2 words take every letter of INVERTING plus a single extra one.