Hidden inside ragtags sit ragtags and tagrags, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ragtags and tagrags tie for the highest Scrabble score from ragtags at 9 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in ragtags: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ragtags itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ragtags and tagrags, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ragtags turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are raggas, ragtag, saggar, and tagrag, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ragtags. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ragga and raggs, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ragtags produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, gags, rags, rats, star, and tags. For points, the strongest plays are gaga, gags, and ragg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ragtags turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, gag, gas, rag, rat, sat, and tag. For points, the strongest play is gag — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ragtags. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and at. For points, the strongest play is ag — worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in ragtags 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.
ragtags 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 ragtags. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ragtags is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ragtags unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ragtags and tagrags, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ragtags 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 ragtags produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.