Hidden inside augers sit argues, augers, and sauger, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
argues, augers, and sauger tie for the highest Scrabble score from augers at 7 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in augers: two come from rearranging its letters, and augers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argues. For points, the strongest plays are argues, augers, and sauger — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in augers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argue, rages, sugar, and urges. For points, the strongest plays are agers, agues, argue, argus, auger, gaurs, gears, grues, guars, rages, rugae, sager, sarge, sugar, surge, urges, 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 augers produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ears, eras, rage, rags, rugs, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are ager, ages, ague, areg, ergs, gaes, gars, gaur, gear, grue, guar, rage, rags, regs, ruga, rugs, sage, and urge — 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 augers turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, era, gas, rag, and rug. For points, the strongest plays are age, ags, erg, gae, gar, gas, rag, reg, rug, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in augers. 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 augers 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.
augers 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 augers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
augers is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing augers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argues, augers, and sauger, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from augers 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 augers produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.