egg needs no unscrambling at all — the three-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 5 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1 valid word comes out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
egg is the highest-scoring word from egg, worth 5 points in Scrabble. The top 1 of 1 word is shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one three-letter word uses the letters in egg — and it is egg itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in egg 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.
egg 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 five senses for egg. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
egg is the only three-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing egg unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is egg, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and no other word from egg 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 egg produce 1 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 three-letter word.