Hidden inside urgings sit surging and urgings, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
surging and urgings tie for the highest Scrabble score from urgings at 9 points. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in urgings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and urgings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are surging and urgings, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in urgings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rings, ruins, suing, and using. For points, the strongest play is grigs — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in urgings produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gigs, guns and rigs. For points, the strongest plays are gigs, grig, and iggs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling urgings turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gig, gun and rig. For points, the strongest plays are gig and igg — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in urgings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in urgings and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
urgings is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record three senses for urgings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
urgings is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing urgings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are surging and urgings, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from urgings 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 urgings produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.