Hidden inside gurluaa sit arugula and augural, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
GURLUAA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ARUGULA and AUGURAL.
arugula and augural tie for the highest Scrabble score from gurluaa at 8 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in gurluaa 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 arugula and augural, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gurluaa. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are argal, augur, graal and 2 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in gurluaa produces 12 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are agar, aglu, alga and 6 more, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gurluaa. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ag, worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in gurluaa plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gurluaa 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 arugula and augural, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gurluaa 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 gurluaa produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.