Hidden inside morgues sit grumose and morgues, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grumose and morgues tie for the highest Scrabble score from morgues at 10 points. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in morgues: one comes from rearranging its letters, and morgues 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 grumose and morgues, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling morgues turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gomers, grumes, morgue, and ugsome, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in morgues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germs, mouse, and urges. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including germs, geums and gomer.
Rearranging the letters in morgues produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, germ and goes. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including germ, gums and mugs.
Unscrambling morgues turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, gum and mug. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gum, mug and gem.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in morgues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, me and or. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and em.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in morgues plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in morgues 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.
morgues 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 3-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 morgues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
morgues is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing morgues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grumose and morgues, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from morgues 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 morgues produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.