tongued needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 101 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tongued is the highest-scoring word from tongued, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 101 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in tongued — and it is tongued itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tongued turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tongue. For points, the strongest play is tonged — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tongued. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donut and tuned. For points, the strongest plays are godet and nudge — 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 tongued produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, gone, note, nude, tend, tone, and tune. For points, the strongest plays are doge, dong, dung, and gude — 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 tongued turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, dot, due, dug, ego, end, and get. For points, the strongest plays are dog, dug, ged, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tongued. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, go, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in tongued plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tongued and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
tongued 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 two senses for tongued. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tongued is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tongued unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tongued, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tongued 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 tongued produce 101 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.