Hidden inside degrading sit degrading and niggarded, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 246 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
degrading and niggarded tie for the highest Scrabble score from degrading at 13 points. The top 10 of 246 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in degrading: one comes from rearranging its letters, and degrading 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 degrading and niggarded, each worth 13 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 degrading. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dredging, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in degrading produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dragged, drained, grading, and reading. For points, the strongest plays are dragged and gadding — 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 degrading turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adding, danger, daring, gained, garden, graded, and nagged. For points, the strongest play is digged — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in degrading. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, aired, anger, dared, dined, diner, and drain. For points, the strongest plays are gaddi, gadid, gaged, and igged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in degrading produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, dead, dear, died, dine, and drag. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dang, dead, died, ding, drag, dreg, egad, gadi, gaed, gage, gang, gied, giga, gird, grad, grid, grig, ragg, and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling degrading turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, age, aid, air, and, are, and dad. For points, the strongest plays are add, dad, dag, did, dig, egg, gad, gag, ged, gid, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in degrading. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 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 degrading 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.
degrading 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for degrading. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
degrading is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing degrading unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are degrading and niggarded, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from degrading 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 degrading produce 246 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.