prodigals needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 429 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
prodigals is the highest-scoring word from prodigals, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 429 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in prodigals — and it is prodigals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prodigals. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is prodigal, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in prodigals produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is lapdogs, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling prodigals turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with radios and sailor. For points, the strongest plays are lapdog and pagods — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prodigals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dials, drags, drips, drops, girls, goals, and golds. For points, the strongest play is pagod — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in prodigals produces 157 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, also, lads, laid, laps, and liar. For points, the strongest plays are apod, padi, pads, paid, pard, pigs, plod, pods, prig, prod, prog, daps, dips, dopa, dorp, drip, drop, gaps, gasp, gips, glop, gorp, and grip — 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 prodigals turns up 94 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ago, aid, air, dig, dip, and dog. For points, the strongest plays are dap, dip, gap, gip, pad, pig, and pod — 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 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in prodigals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, do, go, id, is, and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pa, pi, and po — each 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 prodigals and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
prodigals 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 two senses for prodigals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
prodigals is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing prodigals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is prodigals, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from prodigals 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 prodigals produce 429 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 157 four-letter words, 94 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.