ragworts needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 160 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ragworts is the highest-scoring word from ragworts, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 160 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ragworts — and it is ragworts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ragworts produces exactly one seven-letter word: ragwort. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ragworts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goats, grows and roast. For points, the strongest play is grows — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ragworts produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, goat and grow. For points, the strongest plays are grow, swag, and wags — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ragworts turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, art and gas. For points, the strongest play is wag — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ragworts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and aw. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ow, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ragworts 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.
ragworts 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for ragworts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ragworts is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ragworts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ragworts, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ragworts 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 ragworts produce 160 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.