groundhog needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 97 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
groundhog is the highest-scoring word from groundhog, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 97 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in groundhog — and it is groundhog itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling groundhog produces exactly one seven-letter word: horndog. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in groundhog. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donor, dough and honor. For points, the strongest play is dough — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in groundhog produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with door, drug and good. For points, the strongest play is hogg — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling groundhog turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, dug and duh. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including duh, hog and hug.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in groundhog. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and ho. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in groundhog plus one additional letter.
groundhog 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 groundhog. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
groundhog is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing groundhog unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is groundhog, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from groundhog 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 groundhog produce 97 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.