Hidden inside grounder sit grounder and reground, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grounder and reground tie for the highest Scrabble score from grounder at 10 points. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in grounder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grounder 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 grounder and reground, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in grounder produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rounder. For points, the strongest plays are guerdon and undergo — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grounder turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ground. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including ground, drogue and gerund.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grounder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuder, order and round. For points, the strongest plays are gored, gourd, nudge, and urged — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in grounder produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, drug and gone. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including drug, doge and dong.
Unscrambling grounder turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, due and dug. For points, the strongest plays are dog, dug, ged, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grounder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and no. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, go and de.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in grounder plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in grounder 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.
grounder 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 grounder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
grounder is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grounder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grounder and reground, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grounder 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 grounder produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.