Hidden inside struggle sit gurglets and struggle, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gurglets and struggle tie for the highest Scrabble score from struggle at 10 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in struggle: one comes from rearranging its letters, and struggle itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with struggle. For points, the strongest plays are gurglets and struggle — 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 struggle produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are guglets, gurgles, gurglet, luggers, slugger, and tuggers, 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 struggle turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with result. For points, the strongest plays are guglet, gurges, gurgle, lugger, and tugger — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in struggle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glues, guest, lures, rules, and urges. For points, the strongest plays are glugs, gurge, and teggs — 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 struggle produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eggs, gets, glue, guts, legs, lets, and lure. For points, the strongest plays are eggs, gleg, glug, and tegg — 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 struggle turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egg, get, gut, leg, let, rug, and set. For points, the strongest play is egg — worth 5 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 struggle. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, et, re, te, us, and ut — each worth 2 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 struggle and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
struggle 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for struggle. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
struggle is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing struggle unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gurglets and struggle, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from struggle 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 struggle produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.