Hidden inside hunger sit hunger and rehung, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hunger and rehung tie for the highest Scrabble score from hunger at 10 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in hunger: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hunger itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hunger and rehung, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling hunger produces exactly one five-letter word: huger. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hunger produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with huge, hung, rung, and urge. For points, the strongest plays are huge and hung — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hunger turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, hen, her, hug, rug, run, and ugh. For points, the strongest plays are hug and ugh — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hunger. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh, he, and uh, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in hunger and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
hunger 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for hunger. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hunger is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hunger unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hunger and rehung, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hunger 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 hunger produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.