Unscramble DUNNINGS to get 80 words. DUNNINGS itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. DUNNING is the best of the shorter words, at 9 points. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
D2U12N12N12I1N12G23S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from DUNNINGS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 1 with 6, 7 with 5, 27 with 4, 31 with 3 and 11 with 2.
There is a single one of the 6-letter words in DUNNINGS: DINGUS, 8 points.
Keep every letter of DUNNINGS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DU · ending in GS · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by DUNNING (9 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
DUNNINGS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DUNNINGS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 80) | 59 | 80 | 52 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 21 of them: DUNNINGS, DUING, GINN, INGS, NIDS, SIND, SNIG, SUID, GUS, ING, NID, SUD and 9 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: NUGS, GIS, NUG, SIG, UNIS, GI and UNI.