Hidden inside bludger sit bludger and burgled, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bludger and burgled tie for the highest Scrabble score from bludger at 11 points. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in bludger: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bludger itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bludger and burgled, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bludger turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bedrug, bludge, budger, bugled, bulged, and redbug, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bludger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bluer, lured, and ruled. For points, the strongest plays are budge and debug — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bludger produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bled, blue, bred, drug, glue, lure, and rude. For points, the strongest plays are bedu, berg, bled, bred, burd, burg, drub, and grub — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bludger turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, beg, bud, bug, due, dug, and led. For points, the strongest plays are bed, beg, bud, bug, deb, and dub — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bludger. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: be, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in bludger and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
bludger is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
bludger is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bludger unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bludger and burgled, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bludger earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in bludger produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.