sudds needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 7 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sudds is the highest-scoring word from sudds, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 7 of 7 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in sudds — and it is sudds itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sudds produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are duds and sudd, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sudds produces exactly one two-letter word: us. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 2 points in Scrabble.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in sudds plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sudds and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
sudds 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
sudds is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sudds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sudds, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sudds 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 sudds produce 7 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 2 three-letter words and 1 two-letter word.