duddy needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 2 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
duddy is the highest-scoring word from duddy, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 2 of 2 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in duddy — and it is duddy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling duddy produces exactly one three-letter word: dud. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in duddy and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
duddy 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in duddy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
duddy is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing duddy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is duddy, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from duddy 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 duddy produce 2 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word and 1 three-letter word.