Hidden inside blunger sit blunger and bungler, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blunger and bungler tie for the highest Scrabble score from blunger at 10 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in blunger: one comes from rearranging its letters, and blunger 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 blunger and bungler, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blunger turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blunge, bugler, bulger and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blunger. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begun and bluer. For points, the strongest plays are begun, brung, bugle, and bulge — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blunger produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blue, burn and glue. For points, the strongest plays are berg, bung, burg, and grub — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blunger turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, bug and bun. For points, the strongest plays are beg and bug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in blunger plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blunger 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.
blunger 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
blunger is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blunger unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blunger and bungler, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blunger 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 blunger produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.