Hidden inside ungula sit ungual and ungula, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ungual and ungula tie for the highest Scrabble score from ungula at 7 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in ungula: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ungula itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ungual and ungula, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ungula produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lung. For points, the strongest plays are aglu, gaun, guan, lang, and lung — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ungula turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gal, gun, and nag. For points, the strongest plays are gal, gan, gnu, gul, gun, lag, lug, nag, and nug — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ungula. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 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 ungula and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ungula 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.
ungula is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ungula unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ungual and ungula, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ungula 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 ungula produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.