Hidden inside roughty is one standout: yoghurt, a seven-letter play worth 14 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ROUGHTY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to YOGHURT (noun), yogurt, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
yoghurt is the highest-scoring word from roughty, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling roughty produces exactly one seven-letter word: yoghurt. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in roughty. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ought, rough, tough, and youth. For points, the strongest play is youth — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in roughty produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hour, hurt and orgy. For points, the strongest play is yogh — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling roughty turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, gut and guy. For points, the strongest plays are hoy and thy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in roughty plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in roughty 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is yoghurt, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from roughty 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 roughty produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.