niggarding needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
niggarding is the highest-scoring word from niggarding, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in niggarding — and it is niggarding itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in niggarding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dragging, draining, and grinding. For points, the strongest play is dragging — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in niggarding produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with digging, gaining and grading. For points, the strongest play is digging — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling niggarding turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing, daring, dining, and riding. For points, the strongest plays are gaging and igging — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in niggarding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, drain, grand, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are aging, grand, grind, and rigid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in niggarding produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drag, gain and gang. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including drag, gang and dang.
Unscrambling niggarding turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air and and. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including dig, gag and gig.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in niggarding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and ag.
niggarding 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.
niggarding is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing niggarding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is niggarding, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from niggarding 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 niggarding produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.