wergilds 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, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
wergilds is the highest-scoring word from wergilds, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in wergilds — and it is wergilds itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in wergilds produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is wergild, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling wergilds turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wilder. For points, the strongest plays are weirds, wields, and wilder — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wergilds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, dries and girls. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including weird, wider and welds.
Rearranging the letters in wergilds produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and digs. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including drew, grew and wide.
Unscrambling wergilds turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dew, wed, and wig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in wergilds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ew, id, is, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in wergilds plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in wergilds 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.
wergilds 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.
wergilds is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing wergilds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is wergilds, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from wergilds 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 wergilds produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.