pledges needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pledges is the highest-scoring word from pledges, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in pledges — and it is pledges itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pledges turns up 5 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: pledge, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pledges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with edges, peels, sleep, and speed. For points, the strongest plays are deeps, pedes, and speed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in pledges produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, edge, else, legs, peed, peel, and pees. For points, the strongest plays are deep, deps, peds, peed, pegs, pled, and sped — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling pledges turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee, led, leg, pee, and see. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and peg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pledges. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, worth 4 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 pledges 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.
pledges 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 nine senses for pledges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pledges is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pledges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pledges, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pledges 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 pledges produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.