struggling needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 205 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
struggling is the highest-scoring word from struggling, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 205 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in struggling — and it is struggling itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in struggling. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gurgling and slugging, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in struggling produces 11 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 gurging, lugging, rugging, and tugging, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling struggling turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guilts, insult and luring. For points, the strongest plays are gluing, luging, and urging — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in struggling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with girls, guilt and lungs. For points, the strongest plays are glugs and grigs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in struggling produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gigs, girl and guns. For points, the strongest plays are gigs, glug, grig, and iggs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling struggling turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig, gun and gut. For points, the strongest plays are gig and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in struggling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
struggling 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 6-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 struggling. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
struggling is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing struggling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is struggling, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from struggling 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 struggling produce 205 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.