Hidden inside gouach is one standout: gaucho, a six-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
GOUACH isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GAUCHO (noun), a cowboy of the South American pampas, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
gaucho is the highest-scoring word from gouach, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling gouach produces exactly one six-letter word: gaucho. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in gouach plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gouach 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 gaucho, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from gouach 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 gouach produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.