drug needs no unscrambling at all — the four-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 6 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 4 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drug is the highest-scoring word from drug, worth 6 points in Scrabble. The top 4 of 4 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one four-letter word uses the letters in drug — and it is drug itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drug turns up 3 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dug and rug. For points, the strongest play is dug — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Swap a single tile in drug and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
drug 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 drug. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
drug is the only four-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drug unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is drug, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and no other word from drug 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 drug produce 4 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word and 3 three-letter words.