ungraded needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 165 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ungraded is the highest-scoring word from ungraded, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 165 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ungraded — and it is ungraded itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ungraded produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: guarded, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ungraded turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argued, danger, garden, and graded. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including graded, danged and drudge.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ungraded. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, argue and dared. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including dared, grade and grand.
Rearranging the letters in ungraded produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare and dead. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including aged, dead and drag.
Unscrambling ungraded turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, age and and. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including add, dad and dug.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ungraded. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, ag and da.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in ungraded plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ungraded 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.
ungraded 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 two senses for ungraded. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ungraded is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ungraded unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ungraded, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ungraded 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 ungraded produce 165 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.