niggards needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
niggards is the highest-scoring word from niggards, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in niggards — and it is niggards itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in niggards produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grading. For points, the strongest plays are grading and niggard — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling niggards turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring, drains, grands, and grinds. For points, the strongest plays are agings, daring, gradin, grands, grinds, and raging — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in niggards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, drags, drain, gains, gangs, grand, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are aging, dangs, dings, drags, gadis, gangs, gigas, girds, grads, grand, grids, grigs, grind, and raggs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in niggards produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, digs, drag, gags, gain, and gang. For points, the strongest plays are dags, dang, digs, ding, drag, gadi, gads, gags, gang, gids, giga, gigs, gird, grad, grid, grig, iggs, and ragg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling niggards turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, dig, gag, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, gag, gid, gig, and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in niggards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in niggards 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.
niggards 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 3-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 niggards. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
niggards is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing niggards unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is niggards, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from niggards 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 niggards produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.