drudgery needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drudgery is the highest-scoring word from drudgery, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in drudgery — and it is drudgery itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drudgery produces exactly one seven-letter word: drudger. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drudgery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dryer and ruder. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including gurdy, guyed and gyred.
Rearranging the letters in drudgery produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drug, dude and dyed. For points, the strongest plays are dyed, eddy, and edgy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drudgery turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dry, due and dug. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including dry, dye and guy.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drudgery. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in drudgery and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
drudgery 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 drudgery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
drudgery is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drudgery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is drudgery, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from drudgery 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 drudgery produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.