Hidden inside indulges sit duelings and indulges, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 262 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
duelings and indulges tie for the highest Scrabble score from indulges at 10 points. The top 10 of 262 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in indulges: one comes from rearranging its letters, and indulges itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are duelings and indulges, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in indulges produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dingles, dueling, eluding, engilds, guldens, indulge, singled, and sueding, 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 indulges turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design, genius, guides, signed, and single. For points, the strongest plays are deigns, design, dinges, dingle, dingus, engild, glides, guides, guilds, guiled, guised, gulden, lunged, nudges, signed, singed, and sludge — 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 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indulges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dines, glues, guide, lends, lined, and lines. For points, the strongest plays are deign, dinge, dings, dungs, gelds, gelid, gilds, gleds, glide, glued, gudes, guide, guids, guild, luged, and nudge — 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 indulges produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, digs, dine, ends, glue, and guns. For points, the strongest plays are digs, ding, dugs, dung, geds, geld, gids, gied, gild, gled, gude, and guid — 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 indulges turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, due, dug, end, gun, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dig, dug, ged, and gid — 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 indulges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — 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 indulges and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
indulges 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for indulges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
indulges is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indulges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are duelings and indulges, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from indulges 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 indulges produce 262 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.