Hidden inside ragingly sit grayling and ragingly, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
grayling and ragingly tie for the highest Scrabble score from ragingly at 13 points. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ragingly: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ragingly itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are grayling and ragingly, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ragingly 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 graying, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ragingly turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laying. For points, the strongest plays are gangly, gyring, and niggly — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ragingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aging, angry, and lying. For points, the strongest plays are laggy, naggy, and raggy — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ragingly produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, gang and girl. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including gray, agly and gyri.
Unscrambling ragingly turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, any and gag. For points, the strongest plays are gay and yag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ragingly. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, ay, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ay and ya — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in ragingly plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ragingly 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.
ragingly 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.
ragingly is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ragingly unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are grayling and ragingly, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ragingly 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 ragingly produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.