Unscramble SPANNING to get 119 words. SPANNING itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 11 points: PANNINGS. PANNING, PINANGS and SPANING are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from SPANNING by length: 2 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 8 with 6, 15 with 5, 43 with 4, 37 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Among 43 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SPANNING, the top score is 7, reached by 7. SIGN, PAIN and GAIN are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of SPANNING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SP · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
What SPANNING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. SPANNING 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPANNING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 119) | 92 | 119 | 86 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
27 of the 119 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PANNINGS, SPANING, NAPING, PANING, SPAING, INGANS, PANNI, SPAG, SPAIN, SPINA, INGAN, PAIS and 15 more. 6 of the 119 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SIGNA, AGS, GIS, SIG, GI and SAN.
This word takes every letter of SPANNING plus a single extra one.