gul and lug tie for the highest Scrabble score from gul at 4 points. The top 2 of 2 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 three-letter words hiding in gul: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gul itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gul and lug, each worth 4 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 gul and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
gul 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.
gul is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gul unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gul and lug, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gul 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 gul produce 2 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words.