Hidden inside lodgings sit godlings and lodgings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
godlings and lodgings tie for the highest Scrabble score from lodgings at 11 points. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in lodgings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lodgings 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 godlings and lodgings, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lodgings produces 3 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 godling and lodging, 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 lodgings turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing. For points, the strongest plays are dingos, doings, doling, dosing, goings, and ogling — 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodgings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing, going, golds, lions, and solid. For points, the strongest plays are dingo, dings, doing, dongs, gilds, going, golds, gongs, and noggs — 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 lodgings produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with digs, dogs, gigs, gods, gold, lids, and lion. For points, the strongest plays are digs, ding, dogs, dong, gids, gigs, gild, gods, gold, gong, iggs, and nogg — 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 lodgings turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dog, gig, god, ids, lid, and log. For points, the strongest plays are dig, dog, gid, gig, god, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lodgings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, id, in, is, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are do, gi, go, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in lodgings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lodgings 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.
lodgings 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 one sense for lodgings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
lodgings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lodgings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are godlings and lodgings, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lodgings 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 lodgings produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.