Hidden inside undergoing sit guerdoning and undergoing, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 318 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
guerdoning and undergoing tie for the highest Scrabble score from undergoing at 13 points. The top 10 of 318 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in undergoing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and undergoing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are guerdoning and undergoing, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling undergoing produces exactly one nine-letter word: grounding. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undergoing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rounding. For points, the strongest play is unrigged — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in undergoing produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dungeon, ignored, reunion, and undoing. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including doggier, donging and druggie.
Unscrambling undergoing turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinner, doggie and during. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including doggie, rigged and digger.
There are 61 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undergoing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, doing and going. For points, the strongest play is igged — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in undergoing produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dine, done and drug. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including drug, ding and doge.
Unscrambling undergoing turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and dog. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dog and dug.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undergoing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including do, go and id.
undergoing 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
undergoing is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing undergoing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are guerdoning and undergoing, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from undergoing 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 undergoing produce 318 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 61 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.