Hidden inside plunges sit plunges and pungles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
plunges and pungles tie for the highest Scrabble score from plunges at 10 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in plunges: one comes from rearranging its letters, and plunges 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 plunges and pungles, 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 plunges turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are plunge, pungle, and unpegs, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plunges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glues, lungs, and plugs. For points, the strongest plays are gulps, plugs, pungs, and unpeg — 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 plunges produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glue, guns, legs, lung, pens, plug, and plus. For points, the strongest plays are gulp, pegs, plug, pugs, and pung — 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 plunges turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, leg, pen, sue, sun, and use. For points, the strongest plays are peg and pug — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plunges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with up and us. For points, the strongest plays are pe and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in plunges plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in plunges 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.
plunges 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.
Dictionaries record ten senses for plunges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
plunges is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing plunges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are plunges and pungles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from plunges 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 plunges produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.