ungreedy needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 126 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ungreedy is the highest-scoring word from ungreedy, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 126 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ungreedy — and it is ungreedy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ungreedy turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with energy, gender, and greedy. For points, the strongest plays are greedy and greyed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ungreedy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with green, needy, nuder, and under. For points, the strongest plays are dungy, gurdy, guyed, and gyred — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ungreedy produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, deny, drug, edge, gene, grey, and need. For points, the strongest play is edgy — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ungreedy turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dry, due, dug, dye, end, eye, and gee. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dry, dye, gey, and guy — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ungreedy. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 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 ungreedy 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.
ungreedy 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ungreedy is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ungreedy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ungreedy, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ungreedy 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 ungreedy produce 126 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 14 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.