hodgepodge needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hodgepodge is the highest-scoring word from hodgepodge, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in hodgepodge — and it is hodgepodge itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hodgepodge turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hogged. For points, the strongest plays are hedged, hogged, hooped, and poohed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hodgepodge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dodge and hoped. For points, the strongest plays are ephod and hoped — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hodgepodge produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep, edge, good, hood, hoop, and hope. For points, the strongest plays are hogg, hoop, hope, pheo, and pooh — 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 hodgepodge turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, egg, ego, gee, god, goo, and hog. For points, the strongest plays are hep, hop, peh, pho, and poh — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hodgepodge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh, go, he, ho, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in hodgepodge plus one additional letter.
hodgepodge 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 two senses for hodgepodge. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
hodgepodge is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hodgepodge unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hodgepodge, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hodgepodge 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 hodgepodge produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.