mugwump needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mugwump is the highest-scoring word from mugwump, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in mugwump — and it is mugwump itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in mugwump plus one additional letter.
mugwump 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 two senses for mugwump. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
mugwump is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mugwump unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mugwump, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mugwump 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 mugwump produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.