Hidden inside agues sit agues and usage, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
agues and usage tie for the highest Scrabble score from agues at 6 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in agues: one comes from rearranging its letters, and agues itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agues and usage, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in agues produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages. For points, the strongest plays are ages, ague, gaes, and sage — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling agues turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, gas, sea, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, gae, gas, sag, and seg — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in agues. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and us. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in agues and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
agues 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for agues. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
agues is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing agues unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are agues and usage, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from agues 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 agues produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.