69 words come out when you unscramble MOTIVING, starting with MOTIVING itself: 14 in Scrabble, 18 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 14 points: VOMITING. MOVING is the best of the shorter words, at 12 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from MOTIVING split into 2 with 8 letters, 3 with 6, 6 with 5, 16 with 4, 29 with 3 and 13 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of MOTIVING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with MO · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
What MOTIVING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept MOTIVING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOTIVING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 69) | 51 | 68 | 46 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
17 of the 69 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: VOM, GOV, MING, MONG, TIMON, VINT, MINO, MOIT, MOTI, TOING, INGO, GIO and 5 more. 5 of the 69 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: VOG, VIN, MOI, GI and OI. 1 of the 69 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: VON.
With one more tile, the letters of MOTIVING spell the words below.