Hidden inside ledger sit gelder, ledger, and redleg, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gelder, ledger, and redleg tie for the highest Scrabble score from ledger at 8 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in ledger: two come from rearranging its letters, and ledger 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 gelder, ledger, and redleg, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ledger. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are edger, glede, gleed and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ledger produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer and edge. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including edge, dreg and geed.
Unscrambling ledger turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, led, leg, and red. For points, the strongest play is ged — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ledger. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
10 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ledger plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ledger 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.
ledger 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 ledger. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ledger is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ledger unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gelder, ledger, and redleg, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ledger 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 ledger produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.