stodges needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stodges is the highest-scoring word from stodges, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in stodges — and it is stodges itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stodges. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are doges and godet, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stodges produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dogs and dots. For points, the strongest plays are doge, dogs, geds, and gods — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stodges turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, dot and ego. For points, the strongest plays are dog, ged, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stodges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, so, and to. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, go and de.
Swap a single tile in stodges and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
stodges 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 1-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 stodges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
stodges is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stodges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stodges, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stodges 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 stodges produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.