drudge needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drudge is the highest-scoring word from drudge, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in drudge — and it is drudge itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drudge. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dured, udder, and urged, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drudge produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drug, dude, rude, and urge. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including drug, dude and dreg.
Unscrambling drudge turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, dug, red, and rug. For points, the strongest plays are dud, dug, and ged — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drudge. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in drudge plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in drudge 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.
drudge 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 three senses for drudge. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
drudge is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drudge unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is drudge, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from drudge 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 drudge produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.