Hidden inside debuggers sit begrudges and debuggers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 190 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
begrudges and debuggers tie for the highest Scrabble score from debuggers at 14 points. The top 10 of 190 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in debuggers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and debuggers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are begrudges and debuggers, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in debuggers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are begrudge, buggered, and debugger, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in debuggers produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bedrugs, budgers, buggers, bugseed, and redbugs, 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 debuggers turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begged, breeds, and bugged. For points, the strongest plays are begged and bugged — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in debuggers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beers, breed, deers, drugs, edges, and urges. 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 debuggers produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, beer, bees, begs, bred, buds, and bugs. For points, the strongest plays are beds, bedu, begs, berg, bred, buds, bugs, burd, burg, debs, drub, dubs, 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 debuggers turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bee, beg, bud, bug, bus, and due. 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in debuggers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and us. For points, the strongest play is be — worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in debuggers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in debuggers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
debuggers 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for debuggers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
debuggers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing debuggers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are begrudges and debuggers, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from debuggers 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 debuggers produce 190 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.