Unscramble FLEDGING and you have 137 words, FLEDGING itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from FLEDGING split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 11 with 6, 21 with 5, 42 with 4, 46 with 3 and 14 with 2.
FIDGE tops the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble FLEDGING at 10 points; next come FEIGN and FELID on 9. FIELD, FILED and LINED will look familiar.
Of the 42 4-letter words from FLEDGING, 7 score 8 points, the group's best. FIND, LIFE and LINE are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of FLEDGING for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with FL · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
FLEDGING first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
FLEDGING works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLEDGING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 137) | 104 | 136 | 95 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
32 of the 137 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ELFING, LIGGED, DEIF, ELDING, FLEG, GILDEN, GINGLE, FEG, FENI, GINGE, LIGGE, NIEF and 20 more. 9 of the 137 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: IGGED, DEF, DIF, GIF, DENI, FE, IGG, NEG and GI. 1 of the 137 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI.
This word takes every letter of FLEDGING plus a single extra one.