Hidden inside argus sit argus, gaurs, guars and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argus, gaurs, guars and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from argus at 6 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in argus: three come from rearranging its letters, and argus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sugar. For points, the strongest plays are argus, gaurs, guars, and sugar — 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 argus produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rags and rugs. For points, the strongest plays are gars, gaur, guar, rags, ruga, and rugs — 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 argus turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gas, rag, and rug. For points, the strongest plays are ags, gar, gas, rag, rug, 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in argus. 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 argus 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.
argus 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 two senses for argus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
argus is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing argus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argus, gaurs, guars, and sugar, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from argus 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 argus produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.