raggedly needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
raggedly is the highest-scoring word from raggedly, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in raggedly — and it is raggedly itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in raggedly produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is raggedy, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling raggedly turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are draggy and dreggy, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raggedly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delay, early and gayer. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including glady, gyred and laggy.
Rearranging the letters in raggedly produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare and deal. For points, the strongest plays are edgy, eggy, and yegg — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling raggedly turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are and aye. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including day, dry and dye.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in raggedly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ya, and ye — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in raggedly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in raggedly and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
raggedly 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for raggedly. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
raggedly is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raggedly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is raggedly, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from raggedly 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 raggedly produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.