Hidden inside dungarees sit dungarees, underages, and ungreased, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 463 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dungarees, underages, and ungreased tie for the highest Scrabble score from dungarees at 11 points. The top 10 of 463 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in dungarees: two come from rearranging its letters, and dungarees itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dungarees, underages, and ungreased, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dungarees. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deranges, dungaree, grandees, grenades, unagreed, and underage, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dungarees produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dangers, gardens, and genders. For points, the strongest plays are agender, angered, augends, dangers, dengues, derange, desugar, dragees, enraged, ganders, gardens, genders, gerunds, grandee, greased, grenade, nudgers, and sugared — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dungarees turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, agrees, angers, argued, argues, danger, and earned. For points, the strongest plays are agreed, argued, augend, danger, dengue, dragee, durags, edgers, gander, garden, geared, gender, gerund, grades, gradus, grands, greeds, guards, nudger, nudges, ranged, runged, segued, serged, surged, and unaged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 126 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dungarees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, anger, argue, dares, dears, deers, and drags. For points, the strongest plays are agued, dangs, degas, drags, dregs, drugs, dungs, durag, edger, edges, egads, gauds, grade, grads, grand, greed, guard, gudes, nudge, raged, sedge, and urged — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dungarees produces 139 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, anus, dare, dear, deer, and drag. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, dang, drag, dreg, drug, dugs, dung, edge, egad, gads, gaed, gaud, geds, geed, grad, and gude — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dungarees turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, and, are, due, dug, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dug, gad, and ged — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dungarees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 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 dungarees 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.
dungarees 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 one sense for dungarees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
dungarees is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dungarees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dungarees, underages, and ungreased, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dungarees 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 dungarees produce 463 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 126 five-letter words, 139 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.