Unscramble DELUGING to get 166 words. DELUGING itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. GELDING and NIGGLED are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from DELUGING split into 1 with 8 letters, 7 with 7, 20 with 6, 27 with 5, 49 with 4, 48 with 3 and 14 with 2.
IGGED and UGGED share the top score of 8 among the 5-letter words from DELUGING. GUIDE, GUILD and LINED are the ones most people know.
14 of 49 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DELUGING tie at 6 points; none scores more. LINE, LUNG and GLEN will look familiar.
Of the 48 3-letter words you get when you unscramble DELUGING, 8 score 5 points, the group's best. END, DUE and LED are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of DELUGING for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with DE · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
DELUGING first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. DELUGING is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELUGING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 166) | 127 | 165 | 115 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LIGGED, ELDING, GILDEN, GINGLE, UGGED, UGLIED, UNGILD, DUING, GINGE, LIGGE, LUNGIE, DEGU and 26 more, 38 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: GUNGED, IGGED, LUGING, GUNGE, DENI, IGG, LUD, NEG, NUG, GI, LUN and UNI, 12 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: UGLI.
This word takes every letter of DELUGING plus a single extra one.