Unscramble TARRYING and you have 149 words, TARRYING itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from TARRYING split into 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 11 with 6, 22 with 5, 54 with 4, 43 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Of the 54 4-letter words you get when you unscramble TARRYING, 5 score 8 points, the group's best. ANTI, RING and GAIN are the ones most people know.
The 3-letter words you get when you unscramble TARRYING are led by GAY, TYG and YAG, 7 points each. ANY, ART and AIR are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of TARRYING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with TA · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
What TARRYING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept TARRYING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TARRYING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 149) | 115 | 149 | 107 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
34 of the 149 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GIANTRY, YARRING, GYRANT, GYAN, NITRY, TYRAN, TYG, YARR, AGRIN, ARY, NGATI, RANGI and 22 more. 8 of the 149 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TRYNA, TIYN, TYIN, YAG, GRR, TIAN, GI and RAI.
Each word below uses all the letters of TARRYING and one more.