Hidden inside dodging sit dodging and godding, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dodging and godding tie for the highest Scrabble score from dodging at 11 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in dodging: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dodging itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dodging. For points, the strongest plays are dodging and godding — 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.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dodging. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing and going. For points, the strongest plays are dingo, doing, and going — 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 dodging produces 7 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dido, ding, dong, gong, and nogg, 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 dodging turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, dig, dog, gig, god, and odd. For points, the strongest plays are did, dig, dog, gid, gig, god, igg, and odd — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dodging. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, id, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are do, gi, go, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in dodging plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dodging 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.
dodging 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 three senses for dodging. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
dodging is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dodging unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dodging and godding, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dodging 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 dodging produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.