Hidden inside grudged sit drugged and grudged, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drugged and grudged tie for the highest Scrabble score from grudged at 11 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in grudged: one comes from rearranging its letters, and grudged 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 drugged and grudged, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling grudged turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drudge, grudge, gurged, and rugged, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grudged. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dured, gurge, udder, and urged, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in grudged produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drug, dude, rude, and urge. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including drug, dude and dreg.
Unscrambling grudged turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, dug and egg. For points, the strongest plays are dud, dug, egg, and ged — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in grudged. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in grudged 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.
grudged 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.
grudged is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing grudged unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drugged and grudged, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from grudged 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 grudged produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.