drongo needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drongo is the highest-scoring word from drongo, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in drongo — and it is drongo itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drongo produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with door, good, and odor. For points, the strongest plays are dong and good — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drongo turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, god and goo. For points, the strongest plays are dog and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in drongo plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in drongo and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
drongo 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
drongo is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drongo unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is drongo, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from drongo 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 drongo produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.