Hidden inside mugginses 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 mugginses 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 mugginses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mugginses 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 mugginses. 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 mugginses 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 mugginses 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 mugginses. 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 mugginses 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 mugginses 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 mugginses. 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 mugginses 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.
mugginses is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
mugginses is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mugginses 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 mugginses 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 mugginses 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.