Hidden inside underdogs sit underdogs and undergods, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 354 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
underdogs and undergods tie for the highest Scrabble score from underdogs at 12 points. The top 10 of 354 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in underdogs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and underdogs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are underdogs and undergods, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underdogs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grounded. For points, the strongest plays are dudgeons, 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 underdogs produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grounds, rounded, sounded, and surgeon. For points, the strongest plays are dodgers, drudges, dudgeon, and godsend — each 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 underdogs turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dodges, ground, nursed, rounds, sudden, and undoes. For points, the strongest plays are dodger, dodges, 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 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underdogs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dodge, drugs, dudes, nerds, nuder, nurse, and round. 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 underdogs produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dogs, done, drug, dude, egos, and ends. For points, the strongest plays are doge, dogs, dong, dreg, drug, dude, duds, dugs, dung, eddo, geds, gods, gude, odds, redd, rudd, and sudd — 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 underdogs turns up 67 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in underdogs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, no, on, or, so, and us. 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 underdogs 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.
underdogs 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 underdogs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
underdogs is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing underdogs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are underdogs and undergods, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from underdogs 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 underdogs produce 354 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.