sturgeons needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 426 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sturgeons is the highest-scoring word from sturgeons, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 426 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sturgeons — and it is sturgeons itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sturgeons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with surgeons. For points, the strongest plays are songster, sturgeon, and surgeons — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sturgeons produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sourest, surgeon, and tongues. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including surgeon, tongues and engross.
Unscrambling sturgeons turns up 77 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guests, nurses and routes. For points, 26 words tie at 7 points, including guests, strong and tongue.
There are 111 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sturgeons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gross, guess and guest. For points, 42 words tie at 6 points, including gross, guess and guest.
Rearranging the letters in sturgeons produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, gets and goes. For points, 43 words tie at 5 points, including egos, gets and goes.
Unscrambling sturgeons turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get and got. For points, 21 words tie at 4 points, including ego, get and got.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sturgeons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no and on. For points, the strongest play is go — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in sturgeons plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sturgeons and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
sturgeons 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 3-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 sturgeons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
sturgeons is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sturgeons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sturgeons, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sturgeons 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 sturgeons produce 426 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 77 six-letter words, 111 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.