Hidden inside spurge sit purges and spurge, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
purges and spurge tie for the highest Scrabble score from spurge at 9 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in spurge: one comes from rearranging its letters, and spurge 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 purges and spurge, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in spurge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purse, super, and urges. For points, the strongest plays are purge and sprug — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in spurge produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pure, reps and rugs. For points, the strongest plays are pegs and pugs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling spurge turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with per, rep and rug. For points, the strongest plays are peg and pug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in spurge plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in spurge 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.
spurge 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 spurge. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
spurge is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing spurge unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are purges and spurge, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from spurge 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 spurge produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.