jar and raj tie for the highest Scrabble score from raj at 10 points. The top 3 of 3 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 three-letter words hiding in raj: one comes from rearranging its letters, and raj itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with jar. For points, the strongest plays are jar and raj — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling raj produces exactly one two-letter word: ar. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 2 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in raj and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
raj 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 raj. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
raj is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing raj unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are jar and raj, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from raj 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 raj produce 3 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words and 1 two-letter word.