plundering 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, 379 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
plundering is the highest-scoring word from plundering, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 379 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in plundering — and it is plundering itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling plundering turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is preluding, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plundering. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is upending, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in plundering produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lending and penguin. For points, the strongest plays are pending, plunged, pudgier, and pungled — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling plundering turns up 77 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinner, during and ending. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including duping, griped and gulped.
There are 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plundering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, grind and guide. For points, the strongest play is pudge — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in plundering produces 96 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dine and drip. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including drip, grip and plug.
Unscrambling plundering turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and dip. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including dip, pig and dep.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plundering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and up. For points, the strongest plays are pe, pi, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
plundering 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 6-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for plundering. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
plundering is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing plundering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is plundering, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from plundering 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 plundering produce 379 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 77 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 96 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.