Hidden inside smudge sit degums and smudge, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
degums and smudge tie for the highest Scrabble score from smudge at 10 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in smudge: one comes from rearranging its letters, and smudge itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are degums and smudge, 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smudge. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is degum, 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 smudge produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gums, muds, mugs, smug, sued, and used. For points, the strongest plays are gems, geum, gums, meds, megs, muds, mugs, and smug — 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 smudge turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, dug, gum, mud, mug, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are dum, gem, gum, med, meg, mud, and mug — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smudge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mu, and um — 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 smudge and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
smudge 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 three senses for smudge. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
smudge is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smudge unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are degums and smudge, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smudge 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 smudge produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.