Hidden inside gerunds sit gerunds and nudgers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gerunds and nudgers tie for the highest Scrabble score from gerunds at 9 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in gerunds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gerunds 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 gerunds and nudgers, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gerunds turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nursed. For points, the strongest plays are gerund, nudger, nudges, runged, and surged — 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gerunds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drugs, nerds, nuder, nurse, under, and urges. For points, the strongest plays are dregs, drugs, dungs, gudes, nudge, and urged — each 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 gerunds produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drug, ends, guns, nerd, nude, rude, and rugs. For points, the strongest plays are dreg, drug, dugs, dung, geds, and gude — 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 gerunds turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, dug, end, gun, red, rug, and run. For points, the strongest plays are dug and ged — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gerunds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are de and ed — 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 gerunds 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.
gerunds 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 gerunds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
gerunds is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gerunds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gerunds and nudgers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gerunds 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 gerunds produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.