Hidden inside rigged sit digger and rigged, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
digger and rigged tie for the highest Scrabble score from rigged at 9 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in rigged: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rigged itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rigged. For points, the strongest plays are digger and rigged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rigged. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is igged, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in rigged plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rigged 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.
rigged 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 one sense for rigged. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
rigged is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rigged unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are digger and rigged, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rigged 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 rigged produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.