Hidden inside guardes sit desugar and sugared, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 165 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GRAUSED, ARGUEDS or GRADEUS and you get the same 7 letters as GUARDES: so the words from GUARDES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
GUARDES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DESUGAR and SUGARED.
desugar and sugared tie for the highest Scrabble score from guardes at 9 points. The top 10 of 165 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in guardes produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are desugar and sugared, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling guardes turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argued, argues, grades, and guards. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including argued, grades and guards.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guardes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argue, dares and dears. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including drags, drugs and grade.
Rearranging the letters in guardes produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages and dare. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including aged, drag and drug.
Unscrambling guardes turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and are. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dug, gad, and ged — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in guardes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and us. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, ag and da.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in guardes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in guardes 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are desugar and sugared, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from guardes 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 guardes produce 165 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.