Hidden inside lodging sit godling and lodging, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
godling and lodging tie for the highest Scrabble score from lodging at 10 points. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lodging: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lodging itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are godling and lodging, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodging. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing and going. For points, the strongest plays are dingo, doing, and going — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lodging produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gold, lion, and long. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including gold, ding and dong.
Unscrambling lodging turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dog and gig. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dog and gig.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lodging plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lodging and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
lodging 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 three senses for lodging. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
lodging is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lodging unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are godling and lodging, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lodging 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 lodging produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.