Hidden inside fodges is one standout: defogs, a six-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GODFES, GOESFD or GEOFSD and you get the same 6 letters as FODGES: so the words from FODGES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
FODGES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DEFOGS (verb, form of defog), to remove fog from, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
defogs is the highest-scoring word from fodges, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling fodges produces exactly one six-letter word: defogs. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fodges. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is defog, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fodges produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dogs and egos. For points, the strongest plays are feds, feod, and fogs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fodges turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, ego and fed. For points, the strongest plays are def, fed, and fog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fodges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, of, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in fodges 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defogs, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from fodges 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 fodges produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.