Hidden inside gargles sit gargles, laggers, and raggles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gargles, laggers, and raggles tie for the highest Scrabble score from gargles at 9 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in gargles: two come from rearranging its letters, and gargles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gargles, laggers, and raggles, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gargles turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aggers, eggars, gagers, gargle, lagger, raggle, sagger, and seggar, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gargles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with large, laser, and rages. For points, the strongest plays are agger, eggar, gager, gages, and raggs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gargles produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ears, eggs, eras, gags, gals, and legs. For points, the strongest plays are eggs, gage, gags, gleg, and ragg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gargles turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, ear, egg, era, gag, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are egg and gag — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gargles. 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 gargles and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
gargles 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for gargles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
gargles is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gargles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gargles, laggers, and raggles, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gargles 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 gargles produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.