Hidden inside groundless sit groundless and groundsels, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 626 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
groundless and groundsels tie for the highest Scrabble score from groundless at 12 points. The top 10 of 626 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in groundless: one comes from rearranging its letters, and groundless itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are groundless and groundsels, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling groundless turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are groundsel and unglossed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in groundless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with surgeons. For points, the strongest plays are drugless, goldurns, and guerdons — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in groundless produces 49 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grounds, lounges, and surgeon. For points, the strongest plays are dongles, drogues, gerunds, glossed, godless, goldurn, gourdes, grossed, grounds, groused, guerdon, guldens, lodgers, lounged, nudgers, sludges, sundogs, and undergo — 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 groundless turns up 109 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with golden, ground, lesson, longer, losers, louder, and lounge. For points, the strongest plays are dongle, drogue, gerund, golden, golder, gourde, gourds, ground, gulden, lodger, lodges, longed, lunged, nudger, nudges, rogued, rouged, runged, sludge, sundog, 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 164 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in groundless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dress, drugs, glues, golds, gross, guess, and lends. For points, the strongest plays are doges, dongs, dregs, drugs, dungs, gelds, gleds, glued, golds, gored, gourd, gudes, lodge, luged, nudge, ogled, 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 groundless produces 179 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with legs, lend, less, logs, long, lord, and lose. For points, the strongest plays are doge, dogs, dong, dreg, drug, dugs, dung, geds, geld, gled, gods, gold, 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 groundless turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, due, dug, ego, end, god, and gun. For points, the strongest plays are dog, dug, ged, and god — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in groundless. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, no, on, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, go, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
groundless 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 4-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 groundless. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
groundless is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing groundless unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are groundless and groundsels, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from groundless 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 groundless produce 626 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 49 seven-letter words, 109 six-letter words, 164 five-letter words, 179 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.