Hidden inside ugliest sit gluiest and ugliest, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 139 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble LUSTIGE, GLUESIT or GUISTLE and you get the same 7 letters as UGLIEST: so the words from UGLIEST listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
gluiest and ugliest tie for the highest Scrabble score from ugliest at 8 points. The top 10 of 139 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in ugliest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ugliest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ugliest. For points, the strongest plays are gluiest and ugliest — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ugliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glues, guest, guilt, and suite. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including glues, guest and guilt.
Rearranging the letters in ugliest produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, glue and guts. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including gets, glue and guts.
Unscrambling ugliest turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, gut and its. For points, 13 words tie at 4 points, including get, gut and leg.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ugliest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in ugliest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ugliest 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.
ugliest 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.
ugliest is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ugliest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gluiest and ugliest, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ugliest 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 ugliest produce 139 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.