Hidden inside argals sit argals and graals, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argals and graals tie for the highest Scrabble score from argals at 7 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in argals: one comes from rearranging its letters, and argals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are argals and graals, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argals. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agars, algas, argal, galas, graal, and ragas, 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 argals produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gals and rags. For points, the strongest plays are agar, agas, alga, gala, gals, gars, lags, raga, rags, saga, and slag — 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 argals turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gal, gas, and rag. For points, the strongest plays are aga, ags, gal, gar, gas, lag, rag, and sag — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. 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 argals and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
argals 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 one sense for argals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
argals is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing argals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argals and graals, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from argals 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 argals produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.