ungracious needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 427 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ungracious is the highest-scoring word from ungracious, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 427 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in ungracious — and it is ungracious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ungracious produces exactly one nine-letter word: carousing. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ungracious. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coursing, gracious, organics and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ungracious produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with causing, curious and cursing. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including causing, cursing and scaring.
Unscrambling ungracious turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caring, casino and cigars. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including caring, cigars and curing.
There are 112 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ungracious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cigar, coins and corns. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including cigar, acing and cargo.
Rearranging the letters in ungracious produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, anus and cans. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cigs, cogs and crag.
Unscrambling ungracious turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, air and can. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ungracious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
ungracious 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 ungracious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
ungracious is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ungracious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ungracious, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ungracious 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 ungracious produce 427 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 112 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.