Hidden inside nudging sit dunging and nudging, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dunging and nudging tie for the highest Scrabble score from nudging at 10 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in nudging: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nudging itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dunging and nudging, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in nudging produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ding, dung, and guid, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling nudging turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dug and gig. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dug and gig.
Swap a single tile in nudging and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
nudging 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.
nudging is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nudging unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dunging and nudging, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nudging 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 nudging produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.