hungry needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HYUNGR, GYNUHR or GHURNY and you get the same 6 letters as HUNGRY: so the words from HUNGRY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
hungry is the highest-scoring word from hungry, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in hungry — and it is hungry itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hungry turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, guy and hug. For points, the strongest plays are guy, hug, and ugh — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hungry 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.
hungry 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 1-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 hungry. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
hungry is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hungry unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hungry, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hungry 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 hungry produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.