Hidden inside dirge sit dirge, gride, and ridge, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dirge, gride, and ridge tie for the highest Scrabble score from dirge at 7 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in dirge: two come from rearranging its letters, and dirge itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dirge, gride, and ridge, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dirge produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ride. For points, the strongest plays are dreg, gied, gird, and grid — 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 dirge turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, red, rid, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dirge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
29 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in dirge plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dirge and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
dirge 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 1-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 dirge. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
dirge is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dirge unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dirge, gride, and ridge, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dirge 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 dirge produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.