Hidden inside during sit during and ungird, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
during and ungird tie for the highest Scrabble score from during at 8 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in during: one comes from rearranging its letters, and during itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with during. For points, the strongest plays are during and ungird — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in during. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: grind, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in during produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drug, ring, ruin, and rung. For points, the strongest plays are ding, drug, dung, gird, grid, and guid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling during turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dug, gun, rid, rig, rug, and run. For points, the strongest plays are dig, dug, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in during. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. For points, the strongest plays are gi and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in during 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.
during 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 3-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 during. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
during is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing during unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are during and ungird, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from during 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 during produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.