Unscramble TORTURING and you have 170 words, TORTURING itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from TORTURING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 8 with 7, 16 with 6, 22 with 5, 59 with 4, 44 with 3 and 18 with 2.
Among 59 4-letter words in TORTURING, the top score is 5, reached by 20. UNIT, TURN and TOUR are the familiar ones.
These 5 words have the length of TORTURING, with one letter different:
More 9-letter words: starting with TO · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
What TORTURING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept TORTURING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TORTURING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 170) | 131 | 170 | 119 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 39 of them: RORTING, GUTROT, RIGOUT, ROTING, RUNRIG, TOING, TRUGO, GIRR, GORI, GURN, INGO, RONG and 27 more. Words With Friends* skips 12 of them: TROUTING, OUTRIG, TURION, TROG, GRR, NUG, ORG, TROU, TURR, GI, UNI and OI.
This word takes every letter of TORTURING plus a single extra one.