Hidden inside tigar is one standout: tragi, a five-letter play worth 6 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ARGIT, ATRIG or GARIT and you get the same 5 letters as TIGAR: so the words from TIGAR listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
TIGAR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TRAGI (noun, plural of tragus), a part of the external opening of the ear, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
tragi is the highest-scoring word from tigar, worth 6 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling tigar produces exactly one five-letter word: tragi. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tigar produces 7 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 gait, girt, grat, grit, ragi, and trig, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tigar turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, art, rag, rat, rig, and tag. For points, the strongest plays are gar, gat, git, rag, rig, and tag — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in tigar 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tragi, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tigar 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 tigar produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 7 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.