Hidden inside cargou is one standout: cougar, a six-letter play worth 9 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GURCAO, CAUORG or CUGAOR and you get the same 6 letters as CARGOU: so the words from CARGOU listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
CARGOU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to COUGAR (noun), a mountain lion, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
cougar is the highest-scoring word from cargou, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling cargou produces exactly one six-letter word: cougar. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cargou. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cargo and guaco, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cargou produces 9 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crag and guac, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cargou turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, car and our. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cargou plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cargou 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cougar, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cargou 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 cargou produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.