sturdy needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SDURTY, TRUSYD or RSUTYD and you get the same 6 letters as STURDY: so the words from STURDY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
sturdy is the highest-scoring word from sturdy, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in sturdy — and it is sturdy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sturdy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rusty and study. For points, the strongest plays are dusty and study — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sturdy produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dust, duty, and stud. For points, the strongest plays are drys and duty — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in sturdy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sturdy 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.
sturdy 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in sturdy carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for sturdy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
sturdy is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sturdy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sturdy, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sturdy 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 sturdy produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.