Hidden inside puddings sit puddings and spudding, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
puddings and spudding tie for the highest Scrabble score from puddings at 13 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in puddings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and puddings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with puddings. For points, the strongest plays are puddings and spudding — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in puddings produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: pudding, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling puddings 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 word is duping, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in puddings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with suing, undid, and using. For points, the strongest plays are pings and pungs — 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 puddings produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with digs, dips, guns, pigs, pins, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are dips, dups, gips, pigs, ping, puds, pugs, pung, and spud — 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 puddings turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, dig, dip, dug, gun, ids, and pig. For points, the strongest plays are dip, dup, gip, pig, pud, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in puddings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are pi 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 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in puddings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in puddings and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
puddings 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for puddings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
puddings is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing puddings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are puddings and spudding, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from puddings 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 puddings produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.