Hidden inside ragel sit argle, glare, lager and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 39 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
RAGEL isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ARGLE, GLARE, LAGER, LARGE and REGAL.
argle, glare, lager and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from ragel at 6 points. The top 10 of 39 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ragel. If a familiar word is all you need, start with large. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including large, argle and glare.
Unscrambling ragel turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and ear. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including age, gal and leg.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ragel. 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.
28 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in ragel plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ragel and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are argle, glare, lager, large, and regal, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ragel 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 ragel produce 39 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.