Hidden inside underdog sit grounded, underdog, and undergod, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grounded, underdog, and undergod tie for the highest Scrabble score from underdog at 11 points. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in underdog: two come from rearranging its letters, and underdog itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grounded. For points, the strongest plays are grounded, underdog, and undergod — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in underdog produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rounded. For points, the strongest play is dudgeon — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling underdog turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ground. For points, the strongest plays are dodger, donged, drudge, dunged, and nudged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underdog. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dodge, nuder, round, and under. For points, the strongest play is dodge — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in underdog produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, drug, dude, gone, nerd, nude, and rode. For points, the strongest plays are doge, dong, dreg, drug, dude, dung, eddo, gude, redd, and rudd — 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 underdog turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, due, dug, ego, end, god, and gun. For points, the strongest plays are dog, dud, dug, ged, god, and odd — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underdog. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, no, on, and or. 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.
Swap a single tile in underdog 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.
underdog 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 underdog. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
underdog is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing underdog unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grounded, underdog, and undergod, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from underdog 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 underdog produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.