indulging needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
indulging is the highest-scoring word from indulging, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in indulging — and it is indulging itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in indulging produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guiding. For points, the strongest plays are dinging, dunging, gilding, gliding, guiding, and nudging — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling indulging turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dining and lining. For points, the strongest plays are dining, gluing, idling, indign, luging, and niding — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indulging. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is guild, 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 indulging produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lung. For points, the strongest plays are ding, dung, gild, glug, 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 indulging turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dug, gig, gun, lid, and nun. For points, the strongest plays are dig, dug, gid, gig, and igg — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indulging. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. For points, the strongest plays are 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 indulging and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
indulging 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 6-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for indulging. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
indulging is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indulging unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is indulging, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from indulging 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 indulging produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.