Hidden inside guerdon sit guerdon and undergo, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
guerdon and undergo tie for the highest Scrabble score from guerdon at 9 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in guerdon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and guerdon 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 guerdon 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 guerdon turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ground. For points, the strongest plays are drogue, gerund, gourde, ground, nudger, rogued, rouged, and runged — 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guerdon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuder, round, and under. For points, the strongest plays are gored, gourd, 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 guerdon produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, drug, gone, nerd, nude, rode, and rude. For points, the strongest plays are doge, dong, dreg, drug, dung, 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 guerdon turns up 42 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guerdon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, no, on, and or. 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.
Swap a single tile in guerdon 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.
guerdon 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 guerdon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
guerdon is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing guerdon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are guerdon and undergo, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from guerdon 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 guerdon produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.