niggardly needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
niggardly is the highest-scoring word from niggardly, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in niggardly — and it is niggardly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in niggardly. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are daringly, grayling, and ragingly, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in niggardly produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with darling and grading. For points, the strongest plays are draying, grandly, graying, and yarding — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling niggardly turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring, drying, and laying. For points, the strongest play is draggy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in niggardly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, angry, daily, dairy, diary, drain, and dying. For points, the strongest plays are dingy, dying, glady, laggy, naggy, raggy, and ridgy — 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 niggardly produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dial, drag, gain, gang, girl, glad, and gray. For points, the strongest plays are agly, dray, gray, gyri, idly, idyl, lady, rynd, yagi, yald, yang, yard, and yird — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling niggardly turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, any, day, dig, and dry. For points, the strongest plays are day, dry, gay, and yag — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in niggardly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, ay, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in niggardly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in niggardly and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
niggardly 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 3-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 niggardly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
niggardly is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing niggardly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is niggardly, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from niggardly 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 niggardly produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.