Hidden inside muggers sit muggers and smugger, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
muggers and smugger tie for the highest Scrabble score from muggers at 11 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in muggers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and muggers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smugger. For points, the strongest plays are muggers and smugger — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling muggers turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is mugger, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in muggers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with germs and urges. For points, the strongest play is muggs — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in muggers produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eggs, germ, gums, mugs, rugs, rums, and smug. For points, the strongest play is mugg — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling muggers turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, gum, mug, rug, rum, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are gem, gum, meg, and mug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in muggers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in muggers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in muggers 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.
muggers 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 muggers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
muggers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing muggers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are muggers and smugger, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from muggers 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 muggers produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.