Hidden inside ludwig is one standout: wild, a four-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GWUILD, LUWIDG or LIGWUD and you get the same 6 letters as LUDWIG: so the words from LUDWIG listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
wild is the highest-scoring word from ludwig, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling ludwig produces exactly one five-letter word: guild. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is wild, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ludwig 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 ludwig produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.