Hidden inside ragu sit gaur, guar, and ruga, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 8 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble RGUA, GRAU or UGRA and you get the same 4 letters as RAGU: so the words from RAGU listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
RAGU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to GAUR, GUAR and RUGA.
gaur, guar, and ruga tie for the highest Scrabble score from ragu at 5 points. The top 8 of 8 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in ragu produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gaur, guar, and ruga, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ragu and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gaur, guar, and ruga, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ragu 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 ragu produce 8 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 3 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.