Hidden inside earplug sit earplug, graupel, and plaguer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earplug, graupel, and plaguer tie for the highest Scrabble score from earplug at 10 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in earplug: two come from rearranging its letters, and earplug itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are earplug, graupel, and plaguer, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling earplug turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are graple, gulper, and plague, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earplug. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argue, grape, and large. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including grape, gaper and pager.
Rearranging the letters in earplug produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glue, leap and lure. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including page, plug and gape.
Unscrambling earplug turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ape and are. For points, the strongest plays are gap, peg, and pug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earplug. If a familiar word is all you need, start with up. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in earplug plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in earplug and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
earplug 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for earplug. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
earplug is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing earplug unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earplug, graupel, and plaguer, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from earplug 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 earplug produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.