ungenerous needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 214 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ungenerous is the highest-scoring word from ungenerous, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 214 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in ungenerous — and it is ungenerous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ungenerous. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: generous, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ungenerous produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with surgeon. For points, the strongest plays are guenons, gunners, surgeon, and ungreen — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ungenerous turns up 21 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are erugos, genres, genros and 11 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ungenerous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genes, green, nurse, and urges. For points, 26 words tie at 6 points, including genes, green and urges.
Rearranging the letters in ungenerous produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, gene and goes. For points, 33 words tie at 5 points, including egos, gene and goes.
Unscrambling ungenerous turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, gee and gun. For points, 16 words tie at 4 points, including ego, gee and gun.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ungenerous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, no and on. For points, the strongest play is go — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
ungenerous 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for ungenerous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ungenerous is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ungenerous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ungenerous, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ungenerous 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 ungenerous produce 214 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.