ragouts needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ragouts is the highest-scoring word from ragouts, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in ragouts — and it is ragouts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ragouts turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are argots, gators, groats and 5 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ragouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with autos, goats and roast. For points, 17 words tie at 6 points, including goats, sugar and agros.
Rearranging the letters in ragouts produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, auto and goat. For points, 25 words tie at 5 points, including goat, guts and rags.
Unscrambling ragouts turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, art and gas. For points, 17 words tie at 4 points, including ago, gas and got.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ragouts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in ragouts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ragouts 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.
ragouts 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 one sense for ragouts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ragouts is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ragouts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ragouts, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ragouts 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 ragouts produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.