burd and drub tie for the highest Scrabble score from drub at 7 points. The top 8 of 8 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in drub: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drub itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are burd and drub, 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 drub turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bud and rub. For points, the strongest plays are bud 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.
Swap a single tile in drub and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
drub 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for drub. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
drub is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drub unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are burd and drub, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drub 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 drub produce 8 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words and 6 three-letter words.