Hidden inside tegus sit guest and tegus, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
guest and tegus tie for the highest Scrabble score from tegus at 6 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in tegus: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tegus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guest. For points, the strongest plays are guest and tegus — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in tegus and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
tegus is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
tegus is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tegus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are guest and tegus, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tegus 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 tegus produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.