stodginess needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
stodginess is the highest-scoring word from stodginess, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in stodginess — and it is stodginess itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stodginess. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is dissents, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stodginess produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designs, session, and tossing. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including designs, digests and dingoes.
Unscrambling stodginess turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design, noises and signed. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including design, signed and deigns.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stodginess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dines and doing. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including doing, deign and dinge.
Rearranging the letters in stodginess produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and digs. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including digs, dogs and gods.
Unscrambling stodginess turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and dog. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dog and god.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stodginess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including do, go and id.
stodginess 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 2-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 stodginess. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
stodginess is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stodginess unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is stodginess, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from stodginess 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 stodginess produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.