Hidden inside mugginess sit mugginess and mugginses, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mugginess and mugginses tie for the highest Scrabble score from mugginess at 13 points. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in mugginess: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mugginess itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mugginess and mugginses, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mugginess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guessing. For points, the strongest plays are guessing and snuggies — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mugginess produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with messing and minuses. For points, the strongest play is muggins — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mugginess turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genius. For points, the strongest play is musing — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mugginess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guess, issue and menus. For points, the strongest plays are miggs and muggs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mugginess produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eggs, gigs and gums. For points, the strongest plays are migg and mugg — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mugginess turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, gig and gum. 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 mugginess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, um and em.
Swap a single tile in mugginess and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
mugginess 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 5-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 mugginess. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
mugginess is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mugginess unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mugginess and mugginses, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mugginess 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 mugginess produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.