muggings needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
muggings is the highest-scoring word from muggings, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in muggings — and it is muggings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in muggings produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: mugging, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling muggings produces exactly one six-letter word: musing. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in muggings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minus, suing, and using. For points, the strongest plays are miggs and muggs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in muggings produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gigs, gums and guns. For points, the strongest plays are migg and mugg — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling muggings turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig, gum and gun. For points, the strongest plays are gum, mig, and mug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in muggings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in muggings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in muggings 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.
muggings 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 6-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 muggings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
muggings is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing muggings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is muggings, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from muggings 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 muggings produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.