ungrudging needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ungrudging is the highest-scoring word from ungrudging, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in ungrudging — and it is ungrudging itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ungrudging. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drugging and grudging, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ungrudging produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dunging, gunging, gurging and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ungrudging produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drug, ring, ruin, and rung. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including drug, ding and dung.
Unscrambling ungrudging turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dug and gig. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including dig, dug and gig.
ungrudging 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 7-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for ungrudging. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
ungrudging is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ungrudging unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ungrudging, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ungrudging 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 ungrudging produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.