Hidden inside nudged sit dunged and nudged, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble NUGDED, DUNDEG or UNDGED and you get the same 6 letters as NUDGED: so the words from NUDGED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
dunged and nudged tie for the highest Scrabble score from nudged at 9 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in nudged: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nudged itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dunged and nudged, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nudged produces exactly one five-letter word: nudge. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nudged produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dude and nude. For points, the strongest plays are dude, dung, and gude — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nudged turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, dug, end, and gun. For points, the strongest plays are dud, dug, and ged — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nudged. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in nudged plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nudged and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
nudged 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.
nudged is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nudged unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dunged and nudged, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nudged 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 nudged produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 7 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.