Hidden inside ugliness sit gluiness and ugliness, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gluiness and ugliness tie for the highest Scrabble score from ugliness at 9 points. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ugliness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ugliness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gluiness and ugliness, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ugliness produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with singles. For points, the strongest plays are gunless, gunsels, and singles — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ugliness turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genius, single, and unless. For points, the strongest plays are genius, glisse, gneiss, guiles, guises, gunsel, gussie, ingles, lunges, lungis, singes, single, slings, sluing, susing, and uglies — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ugliness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glues, guess, issue, lines, lungs, signs, and sings. For points, the strongest plays are genus, glens, glues, guess, guile, guise, gules, iglus, ingle, lings, luges, lunge, lungi, lungs, negus, segni, sengi, signs, singe, sings, sling, slugs, slung, snugs, suing, and using — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ugliness produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glue, guns, legs, less, lies, line, and lung. For points, the strongest plays are egis, engs, gels, gens, genu, gien, gies, gins, glen, glue, gnus, guls, guns, iglu, legs, ling, luge, lugs, lung, negs, nugs, segs, sign, sigs, sing, slug, snug, and sung — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ugliness turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, leg, lie, sin, sue, sun, and use. For points, the strongest plays are eng, gel, gen, gie, gin, gis, gnu, gul, gun, leg, lug, neg, nug, seg, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ugliness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, and us. For points, the strongest play is gi — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in ugliness plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ugliness and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
ugliness 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 4-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 ugliness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ugliness is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ugliness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gluiness and ugliness, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ugliness 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 ugliness produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.