Hidden inside fugliest sit fugliest and gulfiest, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fugliest and gulfiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from fugliest at 12 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in fugliest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fugliest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fugliest and gulfiest, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fugliest produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ugliest. For points, the strongest play is sulfite — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling fugliest turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flutes, guilts, and itself. For points, the strongest play is fugles — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fugliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fetus, files and flies. For points, the strongest plays are fugle, gifts, and gulfs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in fugliest produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with felt, file and fist. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including gift, figs and fugs.
Unscrambling fugliest turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fit and flu. For points, the strongest plays are fig, fug, and gif — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fugliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in fugliest and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
fugliest is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
fugliest is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fugliest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fugliest and gulfiest, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fugliest 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 fugliest produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.